Legislation - General Notes

In the list of Bills which follows, the type of Bill is shown at the left-hand margin next to the title by the following codes:

G Government Bills

C Consolidation Bills

B Private Members' Bills (under the ballot procedure). The number after refers to position in ballot

P Private Members' Bills (under SO No 57)

T Private Members' Bills (under the Ten Minute Rule, SO No 23)

L Private Members' Bills starting in the House of Lords

[HL] Bill starting in the House of Lords

HYBRID Public Bill which affects private interests of particular persons or corporate bodies as distinct from the private interests of all persons or bodies

Abbreviations:

1R First reading: date of presentation (formal, no debate)

2R Second reading (debate on the principle(s) of the Bill)

MR Money resolution (normally taken after 2R only shown in the list if taken at another time)

GM Guillotine Motion

SRC Second Reading Committee (2R taken in Committee: formal 2R in whole House next day unless otherwise stated)

SGC/WGC Scottish or Welsh Grand Committee consideration of principles (equates with SRC)

PBC Public Bill Committee in the House of Commons

Comm Committee of the Whole House

Comm** House of Lords Grand Committee, taken in a committee room

JCCB Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills

JC TLRB Joint Committee on Tax Law Re-write Bills (the date indicates the date on which the Bill was committed to the Joint Committee).

SC Standing Committee

SSC/SSSC Special Standing Committee/Special Scottish Standing Committee on a Bill, where public evidence is taken

CN Committee negatived. (Indicates that there was no debate at committee stage in the House of Lords)

OCD Order of Commitment discharged (no debate at committee stage in the House of Lords)

Rep Report stage (detailed review of the Bill as amended in committee)

3R Third reading (final debate on the Bill)

RS Remaining stages of a bill on the same day (usually report stage and third reading)

LA Lords' amendments considered in the House of Commons

CA Commons' amendments considered in the House of Lords

RA Bill formerly becomes an Act of Parliament

CH Chapter number

CO Carry-over Motion

RC Re-committal to a Public Bill Committee, or to Committee stage in House of Lords

Prog Programme Motion

ATM Allocation of Time Motion

SelCom Bill referred to a Select Committee

Prov 2R (Rep,3R) Provisional date for 2R of a Bill etc. For Private Members' Bills (if set down for a Private Members Bill Friday) this is followed, by the position of the Bill in the order of business for that day.

Pri Private sitting (can occur at any stage)

* Indicates proceedings were formal with no debate

# Member in charge has named a date for consideration which is not a Private Members' Bill Friday, therefore the Bill will not be debated.

Deb adj Debate adjourned

Order for 2nd

Reading lapsed Bill has not been printed, therefore does not appear on the order paper on the named day

Dropped Day for the next reading has not been named or time has run out for the Bill to be considered

Withdrawn Member in charge has withdrawn the Bill

Stood over Fewer than 40 Members present at a division, question not decided and business under consideration stood over until next sitting of the House

Complete list of Public Bills before Parliament this Session

The following is a list of Public Bills which are before Parliament this session, with the exception of Order Confirmation Bills.

To save space, the list is abbreviated. The title of the Bill is followed by the name of the Member and/or Peer sponsoring it. The letter denotes the type of Bill (see Legislation - General Notes). This is followed by the Bill number(s) with full bill reprints indicated by the use of bold. Then follow the dates of the various stages. All forthcoming, and therefore provisional, dates are italicised. Government Bills are listed in bold type.

For an explanation of Parliamentary consideration of Public Bills see HCIO Factsheets L1 and L2

ALCOHOL LABELLING [HL] (L) Lord Mitchell

Lords: (10) *1R: 22.11.2007

CHANNEL TUNNEL RAIL LINK (SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS) (G) Ruth Kelly

Commons: (4) *1R: 8.11.2007 2R: 20.11.2007 Prog: 20.11.2007 MR: 20.11.2007 Prov PBC: No date

CHILD MAINTENANCE AND OTHER PAYMENTS (G) John Hutton

(introduced in 2006-07 and carried over to 2007-08)

Commons: (118, 156, 2006-07) 1R: 5.6.2007 2R: 4.7.2007 Prog: 4.7.2007 CO: 4.7.2007 MR: 4.7.2007 PBC: 17, 19 & 24.7; 9, 11 & 16.10.2007

Commons: (3, 2007-08) 1R: 7.11.2007 2R: 7.11.2007 PBC: No date Prov Rep: No date

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS [HL] (G) Lord Adonis

Lords: (8) *1R: 14.11.2007 Prov 2R: 26.11.2007

CLIMATE CHANGE [HL] (G) Lord Rooker

Lords: (9) *1R: 14.11.2007 Prov 2R: 27.11.2007

CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND IMMIGRATION (G) David Hanson

(introduced in 2006-07 and carried over to 2007-08)

Commons: (130, 2006-07) 1R: 26.6.2007 2R: 8.10.2007 Prog: 8.10.2007 MR: 8.10.2007 CO: 8.10.2007 PBC: 16, 18, 23 & 25.10.2007

Commons: (1, 2007-08) 1R: 7.11.2007 2R: 7.11.2007 PBC: 20 & 22.11.2007 Prov PBC: 27 & 29.11.2007

CROSSRAIL (HYBRID BILL) (H) Douglas Alexander

(introduced in 2004-05, carried over to 2005-06, carried over to 2006-07 and carried over to 2007-08)

Commons: (62, 2004-05) *1R: 22.2.2005 CO: 7.4.2005

Commons: (1, 2005-06) *1R: 18.5.2005 2R: 19.7.2005 MR: 19.7.2005 SelCom: 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 & 31.1; 1, 7, 8, 9, 15 & 28.2; 1, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 23, 28, 29 & 30.3; 18, 19, 20 & 27.4; 2, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23 & 24.5; 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28 & 29.6; 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 25 & 26.7; 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 & 24.10.2006 CO: 31.10.2006

Commons: (2, 163, 2006-07) *1R: 16.11.2006 *2R: 16.11.2006 PBC: 16, 17, 18, 25, 30 & 31.1; 6, 7, 8, 20, 21 & 27.2; 1, 13, 14, 20, 22 & 28.3; 10 & 12.7; 9.10.2007 CO: 23.10.2007

Commons: (5, 2007-08) *1R: 8.11.2007 *2R: 8.11.2007 PBC: 22.11.2007