28 Bills in initial stages
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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 require the Secretary of State to issue guidance about the application of the criminal law in respect of the administration of pain relief by healthcare professionals to people who are terminally ill; and for connected purposes.
Friday 7th March 2025
Order Paper number: 34
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to require the Secretary of State to publish measures to address the findings of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman in its report entitled “Women’s State Pension age: our findings on injustice and associated issues”; to require the Secretary of State to publish proposals for a compensation scheme for women born between 6 April 1950 and 5 April 1960 inclusive who have been affected by increases in the state pension age; and for connected purposes.
Tuesday 28th January 2025
Friday 7th March 2025
Order Paper number: 37
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make provision about the liability of practitioners, and of the organisation which employs the practitioner, where a practitioner prescribes an unlicensed medicine to or carries out a non-standard treatment on a person who is terminally ill; to make provision about the import, storage and use of equipment and unlicensed medicines for the purpose of such prescriptions or such treatment; and for connected purposes.
Friday 7th March 2025
Order Paper number: 19
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to prohibit quantitative easing; to prohibit the Government from indemnifying any losses that may result from quantitative easing; and for connected purposes.
Friday 7th March 2025
Order Paper number: 20
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to prohibit the marriage of first cousins; and for connected purposes.
Friday 7th March 2025
Order Paper number: 36
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to require manufacturers to fit microplastic-catching filters to new domestic and commercial washing machines; to make provision about the promotion of the use of microplastic-catching filters in washing machines and raising awareness about the consequences of microplastics from washing machines for pollution in rivers and seas; and for connected purposes.
Friday 7th March 2025
Order Paper number: 12
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to provide that, where a public body collects data about ethnicity for the purpose of delivering public services, it must include specific 'Sikh' and 'Jewish' categories as options for a person’s ethnic group; and for connected purposes.
Friday 7th March 2025
Order Paper number: 14
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make provision for or in connection with the relief of debts of certain developing countries.
Friday 14th March 2025
Order Paper number: 5
(Possibly be Debated)
A Bill to require the Secretary of State to commission and publish a review of the legislation and guidance relating to e-scooters; to place a duty on the Secretary of State to promote public awareness of legislation relating to the use of e-scooters; and for connected purposes.
Friday 14th March 2025
A Bill to require the provision of audio and tactile measures at polling stations for the purpose of enabling blind voters to vote independently and in secret; to require the Secretary of State to take steps to identify, develop and implement new accessible voting solutions for blind voters; to require the Secretary of State to undertake a review of the arrangements for postal voting in respect of accessibility for blind voters and to implement any recommendations of that review; and for connected purposes;
Friday 28th March 2025
Order Paper number: 11
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make provision about the use of the title of nurse; and for connected purposes.
Friday 28th March 2025
Order Paper number: 13
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to establish an independent Office of the Whistleblower to protect whistleblowers and whistleblowing; to make provision for the Office of the Whistleblower to set, monitor and enforce standards for the management of whistleblowing cases, to provide disclosure and advice services, to direct whistleblowing investigations and to order redress of detriment suffered by whistleblowers; and for connected purposes.
Friday 25th April 2025
Order Paper number: 8
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make provision about sentencing for theft in relation to the theft of tools of trade; and for connected purposes.
Friday 25th April 2025
Order Paper number: 7
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to require the Chief Inspector of Drinking Water to issue guidance to water companies on poly and perfluorinated alkyl substances in drinking water; and for connected purposes
Friday 25th April 2025
Order Paper number: 11
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to amend the law relating to parking on verges and footways in England outside of Greater London and in Wales.
Friday 16th May 2025
Order Paper number: 9
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make provision about a cap on political donations; to make provision for a review to recommend the level at which such a cap should be set and to consider the impact of such a cap; to make provision about political donations made by foreign nationals through companies; and for connected purposes.
Friday 16th May 2025
A Bill to provide that an unlicensed driver who has never held a valid driving licence and who causes the death of another person by driving commits the offence of careless driving under section 3 of the Road Traffic Act 1988; and for connected purposes.
Friday 13th June 2025
Order Paper number: 8
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make provision about the installation and maintenance of, and access to, safety equipment at reservoirs; to create an offence of damaging or destroying safety equipment near bodies of water; to make provision about the teaching of water safety in schools; and for connected purposes.
Friday 20th June 2025
Order Paper number: 9
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make provision about Lasting Powers of Attorney; to place duties on banks in respect of Lasting Powers of Attorney; to make provision about the powers of the Office of the Public Guardian to investigate the actions of an attorney; to require the Secretary of State to review the effectiveness of the powers of the Office of the Public Guardian to investigate the actions of an attorney and of its use of those powers; to make provision about the duties of care homes in respect of Lasting Powers of Attorney; to require an attorney to notify the Office of the Public Guardian of the death of a donor; to require the Office of the Public Guardian to take steps to promote the facility to request a search of its registers of powers of attorney; and for connected purposes.
Friday 20th June 2025
Order Paper number: 6
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to prohibit the practice of bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas in England; and for connected purposes.
Friday 20th June 2025
Order Paper number: 7
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make provision for an entitlement to paid safe leave for victims of domestic abuse; and for connected purposes.
Friday 20th June 2025
Order Paper number: 5
(Possibly be Debated)
A Bill to provide for the prohibition of the sale in England of horticultural peat by the end of 2025; to provide for certain exemptions from that prohibition; and for connected purposes.
Wednesday 6th November 2024
Friday 4th July 2025
Order Paper number: 10
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make provision about the accessibility of air travel for disabled passengers; to make provision about the powers of the Civil Aviation Authority to enforce accessibility requirements; to remove the limit on compensation for damage to wheelchairs or other mobility equipment on domestic flights; and for connected purposes.
Tuesday 19th November 2024
Friday 4th July 2025
Order Paper number: 6
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to require the Secretary of State to conduct a review of the contribution of community energy to the Government’s Clean Power 2030 mission.
Friday 11th July 2025
Order Paper number: 16
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make provision about the regulation of roadworks; and for connected purposes
Friday 11th July 2025
Order Paper number: 7
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to give police powers to enter a private dwelling for the purpose of seizing an off-road bike that has been driven in an anti-social way or without insurance; and for connected purposes.
Friday 11th July 2025
Order Paper number: 15
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to introduce a system of proportional representation for parliamentary elections and for local government elections in England; and for connected purposes.
Friday 11th July 2025
Order Paper number: 23
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to require the Secretary of State to enter into negotiations with countries which are members of the European Union for the purpose of extending the Youth Mobility Scheme to applicants from those countries on a reciprocal basis; and for connected purposes.
Friday 25th July 2025