Lords PMBs of the 2022-23 Session


1 Bill received Royal Assent

These Bills are enacted into law as Acts of Parliament following completion of the Bill Process.
Acts of Parliament come into effect at midnight following Royal Assent, unless a date is specified within the Act.

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.


11 Bills progressing in the second house

These Bills have completed the Bill Process in the first house and are now within the Bill Process of the Second House. Once the Second House has added their own amendments, the Bill will move to the Ping Pong phase of exchanging amendments.


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

Lords Completed
Commons - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading
Friday 20th October 2023

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.

Lords Completed
Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 6th September 2023

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.

Lords Completed
Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 6th February 2023

A Bill to provide that powers devolved to Senedd Cymru must not be amended or withdrawn without a super-majority vote of its elected members; and for connected purposes

Lords Completed
Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 26th June 2023

A Bill to require the Secretary of State to achieve the nature target for the United Kingdom; and for connected purposes

Lords Completed
Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 24th April 2023

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

Lords Completed
Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 5th December 2022

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.

Lords Completed

Last Event - 3rd Reading
Friday 24th March 2023
(Read Debate)

Parallel Parliament Note:

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

Lords Completed

Last Event - 3rd Reading
Friday 16th June 2023
(Read Debate)

A Bill to permit young persons to carry out voluntary work on a heritage railway or tramway

Lords Completed

Last Event - 3rd Reading
Friday 21st April 2023
(Read Debate)

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

Lords Completed

Last Event - 3rd Reading
Friday 19th May 2023
(Read Debate)

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

Lords Completed

Last Event - 3rd Reading
Wednesday 1st February 2023
(Read Debate)

10 Bills progressed beyond Second Reading in the first house

These bills have passed the first substantive debate on the initial draft of the Bill (Second Reading) and are now in the process of review and amendment of bill text by a Bill Committee. For the Commons, Bill Committees are formed of around 20 MPs, whereas in the Lords, a Committee of the Whole House is usually formed.

For Commons Private Members Bills, the most difficult hurdle is to pass Second Reading, due to lack of time for the debate. Since 1986, every Government Bill has passed Second Reading.


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

Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading
Friday 3rd February 2023
(Read Debate)

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

Lords - 60%

Last Event - Committee Stage
Friday 2nd December 2022

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.

Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading
Friday 28th October 2022
(Read Debate)

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

Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading
Friday 2nd December 2022

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

Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading
Friday 18th November 2022
(Read Debate)

A Bill to make provision for local authorities to determine their short-term housing needs and housing allocation numbers; and for connected purposes

Lords - 40%

Last Event - Order Of Commitment Discharged
Monday 13th March 2023
(Read Debate)

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

Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading
Friday 2nd December 2022

A Bill to establish a public Advocate to provide advice to, and act as data controller for, representatives of the deceased after major incidents

Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading
Friday 16th June 2023
(Read Debate)

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

Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading
Friday 2nd December 2022

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

Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading
Friday 19th May 2023
(Read Debate)

22 Bills in initial stages

These bills have been laid before Parliament, but have not begun the Bill Process. A Short Title and Long Title (summary) of the Bill will have been provided, though a full text of the Bill may not have been tabled.

For Commons Private Members' Bills, unless a high position on the Order Paper has been secured for the Second Reading Debate (or unanimous consent is expected), it is unlikely that the Bill will progress further from this point. Often only Ballot Bills (which have priority for Second Reading) will have the opportunity to progress.


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

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 8th September 2022

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.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Friday 8th July 2022
(Read Debate)

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

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 7th September 2022
(Read Debate)

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

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 7th July 2022
(Read Debate)

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

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 20th July 2022
(Read Debate)

A Bill to make provision about mechanisms for promoting and protecting standards of integrity and ethics in the public service; and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 5th September 2022
(Read Debate)

A Bill to make provision for the protection of care recipients, their carers and for connected purposes.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 6th December 2022
(Read Debate)

A Bill to make provision for the regulation of private burial grounds and cemeteries

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 15th June 2022
(Read Debate)

A Bill to make provision for the marriage of same sex couples in certain Overseas Territories, and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 6th July 2022
(Read Debate)

A Bill to amend the Marriage Act 1949 to create an offence of purporting to solemnize an unregistered marriage.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 19th July 2022
(Read Debate)

A Bill to regulate and limit the practice of bottom trawling in marine protected areas, and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 16th June 2022

A Bill to amend the Government of Wales Act 2006 and to devolve powers to set bank holidays.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 30th November 2022
(Read Debate)

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

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 13th July 2022
(Read Debate)

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.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 1st December 2022
(Read Debate)

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

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 14th July 2022
(Read Debate)

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.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 24th July 2023
(Read Debate)

A Bill to amend the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 to make transfers between siblings exempt in certain circumstances

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 7th July 2022
(Read Debate)

A Bill to amend the House of Lords Act 1999 so as to abolish the system of by-elections for hereditary peers

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 18th July 2022
(Read Debate)

Bill to make provision in relation to widening access to and participation in higher education; and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 16th November 2022
(Read Debate)

A Bill to make provision in relation to widening access to and participation in higher education; and for connected purposes.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 16th November 2022
(Read Debate)

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

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 15th June 2022
(Read Debate)

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.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Friday 8th July 2022
(Read Debate)