Introduced: 26th May 2022

Lord Hayward (Conservative - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for ensuring the secrecy of ballots cast in polling stations at elections; and for connected purposes

This Bill received Royal Assent on 2nd May 2023 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 7th June 2022

Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops)
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A Bill to require the coroner, following an inquest, to record an opinion as to the relevant factors in a case of death by suicide; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 8th June 2022

Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Conservative - Life peer)
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A Bill to support women in UK sponsored and supported conflict prevention, peace processes, mediation and diplomatic delegations; to ensure systematic gender consideration and responsiveness in UK foreign and defence policy; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 23rd May 2022

Baroness Ludford (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom to be granted to the family members of refugees and of people granted humanitarian protection; and to provide for legal aid to be made available in such cases.

Introduced: 6th June 2022

Lord Wigley (Plaid Cymru - Life peer)
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A Bill to provide that powers devolved to Senedd Cymru must not be amended or withdrawn without a super-majority vote of its elected members; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 25th May 2022

Lord Redesdale (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to require the Secretary of State to achieve the nature target for the United Kingdom; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 19th May 2022

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green Party - Life peer)
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A Bill to establish the right to breathe clean air; to require the Secretary of State to achieve and maintain clean air in England and Wales; to involve the UK Health Security Agency in setting and reviewing pollutants and their limits; to enhance the powers, duties and functions of various agencies and authorities in relation to air pollution; to establish the Citizens’ Commission for Clean Air with powers to institute or intervene in legal proceedings; to require the Secretary of State and the relevant national authorities to apply environmental principles in carrying out their duties under this Act and the clean air enactments; and for connected purposes

A Bill to remove the limit on the number of children or qualifying young persons included in the calculation of an award of universal credit.

Introduced: 6th June 2022

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (Crossbench - Life peer)
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The provisions of the Bill were ultimately enacted through the Online Safety Act 2023.

A Bill to require OFCOM to establish a unit to advise the Secretary of State regarding the use of social media platforms to encourage or assist serious self-harm and activities associated with risk of suicide; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 25th May 2022

Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Labour - Life peer)
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A Bill to permit young persons to carry out voluntary work on a heritage railway or tramway

Introduced: 26th May 2022

Lord Crisp (Crossbench - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for the delivery of healthy homes and neighbourhoods; to set out the principles that define a “healthy home”; to establish the office of the Healthy Homes Commissioner; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 24th May 2022

Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to require an electrical safety certificate to be provided to a prospective purchaser of domestic premises in specified circumstances; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 14th June 2022

Baroness Burt of Solihull (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision to include non-religious philosophical convictions within the school curriculum; to require that persons who hold non-religious philosophical convictions must be represented at standing advisory councils on religious education and at agreed syllabus conferences; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 8th June 2022

Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench - Life peer)
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A Bill to provide for the High Court in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and the Court of Session in Scotland to make preliminary determinations concerning the undertakings made by the United Kingdom as a Contracting Party to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (“Genocide Convention”) under international law; for the referral of such determinations to relevant international courts or organisations; for response to reports on genocide; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 9th June 2022

Lord Addington (Liberal Democrat - Excepted Hereditary)
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A Bill to re-establish the Office of Health Improvement and Disparities as the Office of Health Promotion; to establish a National Plan for Sport to coordinate, support and maintain access to sporting and recreational facilities essential to public health; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 7th June 2022

Lord Norton of Louth (Conservative - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for the appointment of a Commission to advise the Prime Minister on recommendations to the Crown for the creation of life peerages; to establish principles to be followed in making recommendations; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 24th May 2022

Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for local authorities to determine their short-term housing needs and housing allocation numbers; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 13th June 2022

Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to establish an Office of the Whistleblower to protect whistleblowers and whistleblowing and to uphold the public interest in relation to whistleblowing; to create offences relating to the treatment of whistleblowers and the handling of whistleblowing cases; to repeal the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 9th June 2022

Lord Wills (Labour - Life peer)
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A Bill to establish a public Advocate to provide advice to, and act as data controller for, representatives of the deceased after major incidents

Introduced: 13th June 2022

Baroness Blower (Labour - Life peer)
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A Bill to prohibit state-funded schools from admitting students wholly or partially on the basis of criteria relating to ability or aptitude; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 14th June 2022

Lord Storey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to require the Secretary of State to include water safety and training in prevention of drowning as a compulsory part of the curriculum for all schools in England

Introduced: 19th May 2022

Lord Farmer (Conservative - Life peer)
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A Bill to amend the Child Benefit (Rates) Regulations 2006 to make provision to vary the rate of child benefit over the course of childhood to enable eligible parents to receive a higher rate during a child’s early years and a correspondingly reduced rate when that child is older

Introduced: 8th September 2022

Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Labour - Life peer)
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A Bill to amend the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 and the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 to limit the right of landlords to recover legal costs in excess of a prescribed scale; to make Tribunal judgments binding on all leaseholders and to require landlords to account to all leaseholders; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 8th July 2022

Lord Bird (Crossbench - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for a public consultation to inform a set of national wellbeing goals; to require public bodies to act in pursuit of the United Kingdom’s environmental, social, economic and cultural wellbeing by meeting wellbeing objectives, publishing future generations impact assessments and accounting for preventative spending; to establish a futures and forecasting report; to establish a Commission for Future Generations for the United Kingdom; to extend the duty of the Office of Budget Responsibility to consider wellbeing and the future generations principle in their work; to add onto a Minister in each government department's portfolio a duty to promote the future generations principle across government policy; to establish a Joint Parliamentary Committee on Future Generations; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 7th September 2022

Lord Thomas of Gresford (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision about individual expression on matters of public interest; for participation in debates on matters of public interest; and for discouraging the use of litigation as a means of limiting expression on matters of public interest

Introduced: 7th July 2022

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Conservative - Life peer)
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A Bill to amend the Road Traffic Act 1988 and the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 to create criminal offences relating to dangerous, careless or inconsiderate cycling, in particular applying to a pedal cycle, an electrically assisted pedal cycle, and an electric scooter

Introduced: 20th July 2022

Baroness Grey-Thompson (Crossbench - Life peer)
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A Bill to mandate those providing and carrying out regulated or other activities with responsibility for the care of children to report known and suspected child sexual abuse; to protect mandated reporters from detriment; to create a criminal offence of failing to report prescribed concerns; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 5th September 2022

Lord Anderson of Ipswich (Crossbench - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision about mechanisms for promoting and protecting standards of integrity and ethics in the public service; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 6th December 2022

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for the protection of care recipients, their carers and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 15th June 2022

Baroness Hussein-Ece (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for the regulation of private burial grounds and cemeteries

Introduced: 6th July 2022

Lord Cashman (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for the marriage of same sex couples in certain Overseas Territories, and for connected purposes

Introduced: 19th July 2022

Baroness Cox (Crossbench - Life peer)
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A Bill to amend the Marriage Act 1949 to create an offence of purporting to solemnize an unregistered marriage.

Introduced: 16th June 2022

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green Party - Life peer)
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A Bill to regulate and limit the practice of bottom trawling in marine protected areas, and for connected purposes

Introduced: 30th November 2022

Baroness Humphreys (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to amend the Government of Wales Act 2006 and to devolve powers to set bank holidays.

Introduced: 13th July 2022

Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Labour - Life peer)
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A Bill to amend the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 to provide for service charges to be reduced where they do not reflect the landlord’s actual costs in providing goods and services; to make fixed service charges subject to reasonableness requirements; to amend the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 to make the same changes; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 1st December 2022

Lord Young of Cookham (Conservative - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision requiring landlords exercising a right of forfeiture or re-entry in relation to a property subject to a long lease to account to the tenant for the tenant’s equity in that property and to hold the tenant’s equity on trust; to restrict the landlord’s right to legal and administrative costs; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 14th July 2022

Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Labour - Life peer)
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A Bill to amend the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 to prevent landlords recovering service charges where they have failed to comply with their disclosure obligations under that Act; to commence section 21A of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 insofar as is it not already in force; to require landlords to disclose commissions earned on insurance policies; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 24th July 2023

Earl of Dundee (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
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A Bill to make provision in relation to introducing an international element and greater course choice in higher education and research in the United Kingdom; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 7th July 2022

Lord Lexden (Conservative - Life peer)
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A Bill to amend the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 to make transfers between siblings exempt in certain circumstances

Introduced: 18th July 2022

Lord Grocott (Labour - Life peer)
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A Bill to amend the House of Lords Act 1999 so as to abolish the system of by-elections for hereditary peers

Introduced: 16th November 2022

Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Labour - Life peer)
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Bill to make provision in relation to widening access to and participation in higher education; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 16th November 2022

Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Labour - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision in relation to widening access to and participation in higher education; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 15th June 2022

Lord Woodley (Labour - Life peer)
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A Bill to amend the law relating to workplace information and consultation, employment protection and trade union rights to provide safeguards for workers against dismissal and re-engagement on inferior terms and conditions; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 8th July 2022

Baroness Benjamin (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for a certificate to be issued to mothers in respect of miscarried and still-born children not eligible for registration under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953; to establish a database for archiving the certificate and recording information about the miscarriage or still-birth; and for connected purposes.