37 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 give people who have made representations about development plans the right to participate in associated examination hearings; to require public consultation on development proposals; to grant local authorities power to apply local design standards for permitted development and to refuse permitted development proposals that would be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of an individual or community; to make planning permission for major housing schemes subject to associated works starting within two years; and for connected purposes.
Friday 21st January 2022
Order Paper number: 18
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to require public houses to have annual electrical safety tests; to make associated provision about licensing, insurance and enforcement; and for connected purposes.
Friday 21st January 2022
Order Paper number: 10
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to require the Government and Ofgem to conduct and act on a review of the electricity transmission grid and associated charges, to include consideration of abolishing charge differentials based on geographic location, incentivising renewable energy generation to maximise energy output, and minimising the passing on of charge fluctuation risk to consumers in the form of higher prices; and for connected purposes.
Friday 28th January 2022
Order Paper number: 6
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to set national minimum requirements for flood mitigation and protection measures in new build public and private properties enforced by local planning authorities; to place reporting requirements on local and national government in relation to flood prevention measures; to establish a certification scheme for improvements to domestic and commercial properties for flood prevention and mitigation purposes and an accreditation scheme for installers of such improvements; to require insurers to take account of such improvements and any existing flood prevention and mitigation measures that were planning permission requirements when determining premiums; to extend eligibility to the Flood Reinsurance scheme under section 64 of the Water Act 2014 to small and medium-sized enterprises and homes built after 2009; and for connected purposes.
Friday 28th January 2022
Order Paper number: 9
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to require matters relating to climate change and sustainability to be integrated throughout the curriculum in primary and secondary schools and included in vocational training courses; and for connected purposes.
Friday 28th January 2022
Order Paper number: 7
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to introduce a presumption in planning decision-making against approving quarry development in close proximity to settlements; to require the risks of proposed quarrying sites to health and the environment, including through silica dust, to be assessed as part of the planning process; to make provision about the use of quarries for waste disposal; and for connected purposes.
Friday 28th January 2022
A Bill to make provision for educational settings including early years, schools, colleges and universities to be classified as essential infrastructure and remain open to all students during public health and other national emergencies; and for connected purposes.
Friday 4th February 2022
Order Paper number: 8
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to prohibit the manufacture and sale of wet wipes containing plastic; and for connected purposes.
Friday 4th February 2022
Order Paper number: 9
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make involvement in child criminal exploitation an aggravating factor in sentencing for drug supply, drug production, drug importation and money laundering offences; to make being a victim of child criminal exploitation a mitigating factor in sentencing for such offences; to establish reviews of sentencing guidelines in relation to the prevention of child criminal exploitation and criminal liability in relation to child criminal exploitation for organised criminal offenders; to amend the Modern Slavery Act 2015 to include a statutory definition of child criminal exploitation; to create a register of child criminal exploitation offenders; to place duties on public bodies to make plans to prevent, and collaborate in preventing, child criminal exploitation; to make provision about the reporting of the scale of child criminal exploitation and the inclusion of such exploitation in child, domestic, and offensive weapons homicide reviews; to require criminal justice agencies to publish information on their responses to child criminal exploitation; to make provision about the training of professionals in responding to child criminal exploitation; to make provision about the content and national oversight of local serious violence strategies in relation to child criminal exploitation; and for connected purposes.
Friday 4th February 2022
Order Paper number: 22
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to grant a right of access to the digital devices of a dead or incapacitated person to their next of kin; and for connected purposes.
Friday 4th February 2022
Order Paper number: 11
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make provision to enable the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to investigate advice and information given by the Secretary of State and the Government Actuary relating to transfers of pensions from the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority pension schemes to the AEA Technology pension scheme; and for connected purposes.
Friday 25th February 2022
Order Paper number: 10
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make provision for and in connection with offences relating to verbal and physical abuse of public-facing workers in the course of their employment.
Friday 25th February 2022
Order Paper number: 7
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to extend entitlement to parental bereavement leave and pay to parents of babies miscarried or stillborn during early pregnancy; and for connected purposes.
Friday 25th February 2022
Order Paper number: 6
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to require advertisers, broadcasters and publishers to display a logo in cases where an image of a human body or body part has been digitally altered in its proportions; and for connected purposes.
Friday 25th February 2022
Order Paper number: 14
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to establish a duty on Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service and private prison operators to minimise violence in prisons; and for connected purposes.
Wednesday 19th January 2022
Friday 25th February 2022
Order Paper number: 16
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make provision about leave and pay for employees of whom a close family member has died.
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 15
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to give workers the right to flexible working from the first day of employment except in exceptional circumstances; to require employers to offer flexible working arrangements in employment contracts and advertise the available types of such flexibility in vacancy notices; and for connected purposes.
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 25
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to establish an independent public inquiry into the Government’s response to concerns about fire and building safety.
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 12
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to require dog keepers to register a dog’s DNA on a database; to make provision about such databases and about the information held on them; and for connected purposes.
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 7
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to prohibit the sale of arms to Israel and the purchase of arms from Israel; to make associated provision about an inquiry in relation to Israel into the end use of arms sold from the UK or authorised for sale by the UK Government; and for connected purposes.
Wednesday 7th July 2021
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 32
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to amend the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953; and for connected purposes.
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 13
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to amend section 5 of the Education Act 2005 to provide that Ofsted may inspect the governing bodies of Multi-Academy Trusts.
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 7
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to restrict the use of non-disclosure agreements; and for connected purposes.
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 14
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to prohibit the caging of commercially reared, egg-laying hens and pullets; and for connected purposes.
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 16
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to place duties on the Secretary of State to decarbonise the United Kingdom economy and to reverse inequality; to establish a ten-year economic and public investment strategy in accordance with those duties which promotes a community- and employee-led transition from high-carbon to low- and zero-carbon industry; to require the Government to report on its adherence to the strategy; to establish higher environmental standards for air, water and green spaces; to make provision to protect and restore natural habitats; and for connected purposes.
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 18
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to require Her Majesty's Government formally to recognise the Armenian genocide of 1915–23; and for connected purposes.
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 22
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to prohibit the use of disposable barbecues on open moorland; to give local authorities the power to prohibit the sale of disposable barbecues in their area; and for connected purposes.
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 41
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to require social media platforms to offer a user identity verification process to all users; to require such platforms to offer options to limit or block interaction with other users who have chosen not to verify their identity through that process; and for connected purposes.
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 27
(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 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 62
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to require screening for dyslexia in primary schools; to make provision about the teaching and assessment of children found by that screening to have dyslexia; and for connected purposes.
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 30
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to transfer monies from the Dormant Assets Scheme into a new national endowment called the Community Wealth Fund, to be invested for the purposes of improving the local environments and quality of life of deprived communities, including through building social capital and social infrastructure; and for connected purposes.
Friday 18th March 2022
A Bill to require the Secretary of State to report to Parliament on providing additional allowances to people in receipt of the state pension and other social security benefits in places with colder climates to reflect the increased cost of domestic heating; and for connected purposes.
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 49
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make provision about groups of employees at risk of redundancy buying their employing company as a co-operative; and for connected purposes.
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 45
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make provision about protecting consumers from being charged twice for the same good or service; and for connected purposes.
Friday 18th March 2022
Order Paper number: 65
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
A Bill to make provision about electric vehicle charging points in new buildings; and for connected purposes.
A Bill to establish a passenger charter for disabled land transport passengers setting out their rights, the legal obligations of transport operators, complaints procedures, passenger assistance schemes and accessibility requirements; and for connected purposes.
A Bill to make unauthorised development without planning permission an offence; to prohibit retrospective planning applications; and for connected purposes.