Bills before Parliament by stage
Bills in the current session of the UK Parliament that are not yet law, counted by the stage each has reached, for government bills and for all other bills, on the day the data was retrieved.
Bills before Parliament
189
30 Oct 2026 · 18 of them government bills
Verified against source, 31 October 2026, 11:15 UTC- Government bills
- Other bills
Source: UK Parliament. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
Data table
12 rows
| Category | Government bills | Other bills |
|---|---|---|
| Commons: 2nd reading | 2 | 133 |
| Lords: 2nd reading | 2 | 17 |
| Lords: Committee stage | 3 | 12 |
| Commons: Report stage | 2 | 3 |
| Commons: Committee stage | 4 | 0 |
| Lords: 3rd reading | 1 | 2 |
| Commons: 1st reading | 1 | 1 |
| Lords: Report stage | 2 | 0 |
| Commons: Bill reintroduced | 0 | 1 |
| Commons: Consideration of Lords amendments | 1 | 0 |
| Commons: Motion to revive Bill | 0 | 1 |
| Lords: Motion to revive Bill | 0 | 1 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- UK Parliament
- Check it yourself
- https://bills.parliament.uk/
- Licence
- Open Parliament Licence v3.0 – Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 31 October 2026, 11:11 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://bills-api.parliament.uk/api/v1/Bills?SortOrder=DateUpdatedDescending&Take=20SHA-256 47d9b9fa77b6f71ab50834e994e8dfdd3fe72730a517c182101a9edbb1a4723e · 12,707 bytes
- https://bills-api.parliament.uk/api/v1/Bills?Session=40&IsDefeated=false&IsWithdrawn=false&Skip=0&Take=200SHA-256 08ad574256d2fd96052df033aaf63c589b460a42a32774a3a98030b7010ce02f · 107,151 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 31 October 2026, 11:15 UTC Run at 31 October 2026, 11:15 UTC; 24 of 24 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | UK Parliament; Open Parliament Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-31T11:11:05Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 24 of 24 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 24 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 24 of 24 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | Stage-filtered queries agree | 24 of 24 counts match the totals the Bills API gives when asked for one stage and bill type at a time (session 40) |
| Not run | Source page answers | https://bills.parliament.uk/ refuses automated requests (HTTP 403); open it in a browser to compare |
Notes
- Bills that have been defeated or withdrawn, or have become Acts, are left out. "Other bills" are private members' bills, private bills and hybrid bills.