Government Bills are a type of Public Bill, introduced by government ministers. A Government Bill is a formal proposal for a new law, or a change in the law, that is put forward by the Government for consideration by Parliament. The King's Speech normally lists the Bills that the Government are intending to put forward during the parliamentary year. Government Bills are normally Public Bills.
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- Academies Act 2010
- Advanced Research and Invention Agency Act 2022
- Agriculture Act 2020
- Agriculture Bill
- Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021
- Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill [HL]
- Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing Act 2017
- Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill
- Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill
- Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill
- Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill
- Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022
- Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act
- Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning
- Appropriation Act 2007
- Appropriation Act 2008
- Appropriation Act 2009
- Appropriation Act 2010
- Appropriation Act 2011
- Appropriation (No.2) Act 2007
- Appropriation (No. 2) Act 2009
- Appropriation (No. 2) Act 2010
- Appropriation (No. 3) Act 2008
- Appropriation (No. 3) Act 2010
- Arbitration Bill [HL]
- Arbitration Bill [HL]
- Armed Forces
- Armed Forces Act 2011
- Armed Forces Act 2021
- Armed Forces (Flexible Working) Act 2018
- Armed Forces (Service Complaints and Financial Assistance) Act 2015
- Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018
- Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]
- Banking Act 2009
- Banking (No. 2) Bill [HL]
- Banking (Special Provisions) Act 2008
- Bank of England and Financial Services Act 2016
- Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill [HL]
- Bill of Rights Bill
- Birmingham Commonwealth Games Act 2020
- Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [HL]
- Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009
- Bribery Act 2010
- British Nationality (Regularisation of Past Practice) Bill
- Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011
- Budget Responsibility Bill
- Building Safety Act 2022
- Business and Planning Act 2020
- Business Rate Supplements Act 2009
- Bus Services Act 2017 ch 21
- Care Act
- Census (Return Particulars and Removal of Penalties) Act
- Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Act 2008
- Charities Act 2011
- Charities Act 2022
- Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Act 2016
- Childcare Act 2016
- Childcare Payments Act 2014
- Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008
- Child Poverty Act 2010
- Children and Families Act
- Children and Social Work Act 2017
- Children and Young Persons Act 2008
- Children, Schools and Families Act 2010
- Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016
- Civil Aviation Act 2012
- Civil Liability Act 2018
- Climate Change Act 2008
- Cluster Munitions (Prohibitions) Act 2010
- Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill
- Commonwealth Development Corporation Act 2017
- Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill [HL]
- Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Act 2021
- Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007
- Consolidated Fund Act 2006
- Consolidated Fund Act 2007
- Consolidated Fund Act 2008
- Consolidated Fund Act 2010
- Consolidated Fund Act 2010
- Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010
- Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012
- Consumer Rights Act 2015
- Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007
- Contingencies Fund Act 2020
- Contingencies Fund Act 2021
- Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act
- Coronavirus Act 2020
- Coroners and Justice
- Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020
- Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
- Corporation Tax Act
- Corporation Tax Act 2010
- Corporation Tax (Northern Ireland) Act 2015
- Counsellors of State Act 2022
- Counter-Terrorism Act 2008
- Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019
- Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015
- Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021
- Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018
- Courts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]
- Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021
- Crime and Courts Act
- Crime and Security Act 2010
- Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Act 2019
- Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Act 2008
- Criminal Finances Act 2017
- Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015
- Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008
- Criminal Justice Bill
- Critical Benchmarks (References and Administrators’ Liability) Act 2021
- Crown Estate Bill [HL]
- Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Act 2017
- Data Protection Act 2018
- Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
- Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill
- Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014
- Defamation Act
- Defence Reform Act
- Deregulation Act 2015
- Digital Economy Act 2010
- Digital Economy Act 2017
- Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
- Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Act 2007
- Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Act 2020
- Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill
- Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020
- Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill
- Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill [HL]
- Domestic Abuse Act 2021
- Domestic Abuse Bill
- Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Act 2018
- Dormant Assets Act 2022
- Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Act 2008
- Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019
- Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
- Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
- Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022
- Education Act 2011
- Education and Adoption Act
- Education and Skills Act 2008
- Elections Act 2022
- Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013
- Electronic Trade Documents Bill [HL]
- Employment Act 2008
- Energy Act 2008
- Energy Act 2010
- Energy Act 2011
- Energy Act 2013
- Energy Act 2016
- Energy Bill [HL]
- Energy (Oil and Gas) Profits Levy Act 2022
- Energy Prices Act 2022
- Enterprise Act 2016
- Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act
- Environment Act 2021
- Environment Bill
- Equality Act 2010
- Equitable Life (Payments) Act 2010
- European Communities (Finance) Act 2008
- European Union Act 2011
- European Union (Amendment) Act 2008
- European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Act 2012
- European Union (Approvals) Act
- European Union (Approvals) Act 2013
- European Union (Approvals) Act 2015
- European Union (Approvals) Act 2017
- European Union (Croatian Accession and Irish Protocol) Act 2013
- European Union (Finance) Act 2015
- European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020
- European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Act 2017
- European Union Referendum Act 2015
- European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018
- European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020
- European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill
- Extradition (Provisional Arrest) Act 2020
- Extradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL]
- Finance Act 2007
- Finance Act 2008
- Finance Act 2009
- Finance Act 2010
- Finance Act 2011
- Finance Act 2012
- Finance Act 2013
- Finance Act 2014
- Finance Act 2015
- Finance Act 2016
- Finance Act 2017
- Finance Act 2018
- Finance Act 2019
- Finance Act 2020
- Finance Act 2021
- Finance Act 2022
- Finance Act 2023
- Finance Bill
- Finance (No. 2) Act 2010
- Finance (No. 2) Act 2015
- Finance (No. 2) Act 2017
- Finance (No. 2) Bill
- Finance (No. 2) Bill
- Finance (No. 3) Act 2010
- Financial Guidance and Claims Act 2018
- Financial Services Act 2010
- Financial Services Act 2012
- Financial Services Act 2021
- Financial Services and Markets Bill
- Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act
- Financial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]
- Fire Safety Act 2021
- Fiscal Responsibility Act 2010
- Fisheries Act 2020
- Fisheries Bill
- Fixed-Term Parliaments Act 2011
- Flood Water Management Act 2010
- Football Governance Bill
- Fraud (Trials Without a Jury) Bill
- Further Education and Training Act 2007
- Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act
- Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
- Geneva Conventions and United Nations Personnel (Protocols) Act
- Great British Energy Bill
- Greater London Authority Act 2007
- Groceries Code Adjudicator Act
- Growth and Infrastructure Act
- Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Act 2018
- Health
- Health and Care Act 2022
- Health and Social Care Act 2008
- Health and Social Care Act 2012
- Health and Social Care Levy Act 2021
- Health and Social Care Levy (Repeal) Act 2022
- Healthcare (European Economic Area and Switzerland Arrangements) Act 2019
- Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Act 2017
- Health Service Safety Investigations Bill [HL]
- HGV Road User Levy Act 2013
- Higher Education and Research Act 2017
- Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
- High Speed Rail (Preparation) Act
- Historical Institutional Abuse (Northern Ireland) Act 2019
- Holocaust Memorial Bill
- House of Commons Commission Act 2015
- House of Lords Reform Bill
- Housing and Planning Act 2016
- Housing and Regeneration Act 2008
- Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
- Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022
- Identity Documents Act 2010
- Illegal Migration Bill
- Immigration Act
- Immigration Act 2016
- Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020
- Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill
- Income Tax Act 2007
- Industry and Exports (Financial Support) Act
- Infrastructure Act 2015
- Infrastructure (Financial Assistance) Act 2012
- Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Act
- Insurance Act 2015
- Intellectual Property Act
- Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017
- International Tribunals (Sierra Leone) Act 2007
- Investigatory Powers Act 2016
- Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]
- Investment Exchanges and Clearing Houses Act 2006
- Ivory Act 2018
- Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013
- Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022
- Justice and Security Act
- Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007
- Kew Gardens (Leases) Act 2019
- Laser Misuse (Vehicles) Act 2018
- Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
- Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022
- Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
- Legal Services Act
- Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
- Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill
- Litigation Funding Agreements (Enforceability) Bill [HL]
- Loans to Ireland Act 2010
- Local Audit and Accountability Act
- Local Democracy
- Local Government Act 2010
- Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act
- Local Government Finance Act 2012
- Local Government Finance Bill
- Localism Act 2011
- Local Transport Act 2008
- London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Act 2011
- Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015
- Marine and Coastal Access
- Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013
- Media Bill
- Medicines and Medical Devices Act 2021
- Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019
- Mental Health Act 2007
- Mental Health (Approval Functions) Act 2012
- Mesothelioma Act
- Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Act 2021
- Modern Slavery Act 2015
- National Citizen Service Act 2017
- National Insurance Contributions Act 2008
- National Insurance Contributions Act 2011
- National Insurance Contributions Act 2014
- National Insurance Contributions Act 2015
- National Insurance Contributions Act 2022
- National Insurance Contributions (Increase of Thresholds) Act 2022
- National Insurance Contributions (Rate Ceilings) Act 2015
- National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) Bill
- National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No. 2) Bill
- National Insurance Contributions (Termination Awards and Sporting Testimonials) Act 2019
- Nationality and Borders Act 2022
- National Security and Investment Act 2021
- National Security Bill
- Neighbourhood Planning Act 2017
- NHS Funding Act 2020
- Non-Domestic Rating Bill
- Non-Domestic Rating (Lists) Act 2021
- Non-Domestic Rating (Lists) Bill
- Non-Domestic Rating (Lists) Bill [HL]
- Non-Domestic Rating (Nursery Grounds) Act 2018
- Non-Domestic Rating (Preparation for Digital Services) Act 2019
- Non-Domestic Rating (Public Lavatories) Act 2021
- Non-Domestic Rating (Public Lavatories) Bill [HL]
- Northern Ireland Act
- Northern Ireland Assembly Members Act 2010
- Northern Ireland Assembly Members (Pay) Act 2018
- Northern Ireland Budget Act 2017
- Northern Ireland Budget Act 2018
- Northern Ireland Budget Act 2019
- Northern Ireland Budget Act 2023
- Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2018
- Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2019
- Northern Ireland Budget (No. 2) Bill
- Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Act 2018
- Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Organ and Tissue Donation) (changed from Northern Ireland (Executive Formation)) Bill
- Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill
- Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019
- Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2022
- Northern Ireland (Interim Arrangements) Bill
- Northern Ireland (Ministerial Appointments and Regional Rates) Act 2017
- Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) Act 2022
- Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act
- Northern Ireland Protocol Bill
- Northern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) Act
- Northern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) Act 2019
- Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2006
- Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2007
- Northern Ireland (Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan) Act 2016
- Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill
- Northern Ireland (Welfare Reform) Act 2015
- Nuclear Energy (Financing) Act 2022
- Nuclear Safeguards Act 2018
- Offender Management Act 2007
- Offender Rehabilitation Act
- Offensive Weapons Act 2019
- Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
- Online Safety Bill
- Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Act 2021
- Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Act 2019
- Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020
- Parliamentary Standards
- Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011
- Parliament (Joint Departments) Act 2007
- Partnerships (Prosecution) (Scotland) Act
- Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill
- Pedicabs (London) Bill [HL]
- Pensions Act
- Pensions Act 2007
- Pensions Act 2008
- Pensions Act 2011
- Pension Schemes Act
- Pension Schemes Act 2017
- Pension Schemes Act 2021
- Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
- Perpetuities and Accumulations
- Personal Care at Home Act 2010
- Planning Act 2008
- Planning-Gain Supplement (Preparations) Act 2007
- Police (Complaints and Conduct) Act 2012
- Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022
- Police (Detention and Bail) Act 2011
- Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011
- Policing and Crime
- Policing and Crime Act 2017
- Political Parties and Elections
- Postal Services Act 2011
- Postal Services Bill [HL]
- Post Office (Horizon System) Compensation Bill
- Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill
- Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) Act 2020
- Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) Bill
- Prisons and Courts Bill
- Private International Law (Implementation of Agreements) Act 2020
- Procurement Bill [HL]
- Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022
- Professional Qualifications Act 2022
- Protection of Freedoms Act 2012
- Psychoactive Substances Act 2016
- Public Bodies Act 2011
- Public Order Bill
- Public Service Pensions Act
- Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022
- Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Act 2021
- Rating (Empty Properties) Act 2007
- Rating (Property in Common Occupation) and Council Tax (Empty Dwellings) Act 2018
- Recall of MPs Act 2015
- Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008
- Renters (Reform) Bill
- Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
- Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
- Sale of Student Loans Act 2008
- Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018
- Saving Gateway Accounts Act
- Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Act 2010
- Savings (Government Contributions) Act 2017
- Schools Bill [HL]
- Scotland Act 2012
- Scotland Act 2016
- Seafarers' Wages Bill [HL]
- Secure Tenancies (Victims of Domestic Abuse) Act 2018
- Sentencing Bill
- Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Act 2020
- Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL]
- Serious Crime Act
- Serious Crime Act 2007
- Skills and Post-16 Education Act 2022
- Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015
- Small Charitable Donations Act 2012
- Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Act 2017
- Smart Meters Act 2018
- Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Act 2015
- Social Housing (Regulation) Bill [HL]
- Social Security (Additional Payments) Act 2022
- Social Security (Additional Payments) (No. 2) Bill
- Social Security (Special Rules for End of Life) Act 2022
- Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Act 2020
- Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Act 2021
- Sovereign Grant Act 2011
- Space Industry Act 2018
- Stamp Duty Land Tax Act 2015
- Stamp Duty Land Tax (Temporary Relief) Act 2020
- Stamp Duty Land Tax (Temporary Relief) Act 2023
- Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007
- Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2008
- Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2013
- Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
- Subsidy Control Act 2022
- Succession to the Crown Act
- Sunday Trading (London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games) Act 2012
- Superannuation Act 2010
- Supply and Appropriation (Adjustments) Act 2022
- Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act
- Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2012
- Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2013
- Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2015
- Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2016
- Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2017
- Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2018
- Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2019
- Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2020
- Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2021
- Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2022
- Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Bill
- Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Bill
- Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2011
- Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2012
- Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2013
- Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2014
- Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2015
- Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2016
- Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2017
- Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2018
- Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2019
- Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2020
- Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2021
- Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2022
- Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Bill
- Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) (No.2) Bill
- Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018
- Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010
- Taxation of Pensions Act 2014
- Taxation (Post-transition Period) Act 2020
- Technical and Further Education Act 2017
- Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Act 2021
- Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill
- Telecommunications Infrastructure (Relief from Non-Domestic Rates) Act 2018
- Telecommunications (Security) Act 2021
- Tenant Fees Act 2019
- Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011
- Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc. Act 2010
- Terrorist Asset-Freezing (Temporary Provisions) Act 2010
- Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Act 2020
- Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010
- Tobacco and Vapes Bill
- Trade Act 2021
- Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill
- Trade Bill
- Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
- Trade (Disclosure of Information) Act 2020
- Trade Union Act 2016
- Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act
- Transport Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
- Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
- Trusts (Capital and Income) Act 2013
- UK Borders Act
- UK Infrastructure Bank Bill [HL]
- United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020
- Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill
- Victims and Prisoners Bill
- Video Recording Act 2010
- Voyeurism (Offences) Act 2019
- Wales Act 2014
- Wales Act 2017
- Water Act
- Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Act 2012
- Welfare Benefits Up-rating Act 2013
- Welfare Reform
- Welfare Reform Act 2007
- Welfare Reform Act 2012
- Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016
- Wild Animals in Circuses Act 2019
- Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) Act 2020