Laws

Lets the government officially list foreign state groups that threaten the UK and make it illegal to help or support them.

The government can take over steel companies if needed to protect national security or the economy. Owners must be paid fair compensation.

This bill raises taxes on energy companies' windfall profits, increases mileage allowances for workers and self-employed people, and temporarily cuts vehicle tax for heavy goods vehicles.

This bill approves government spending of £634 billion for the year April 2026 to March 2027 across health, education, justice and other services. It allows the Treasury to issue money from the Consolidated Fund and sets how departments must use their budgets.

Sweeping reform of children's social care and schools covering family support, safeguarding, care regulation, school meals, uniforms, teacher standards, and independent education oversight.

From April 2029, employer pension contributions over £2,000 per year made via salary sacrifice will become subject to National Insurance contributions. Most employees will be unaffected.

This bill increases the maximum number of government ministers who can receive a salary from 109 to 120. It makes it easier for the Prime Minister to pay more ministers.

This law allows the government to spend public money on building and maintaining a permanent memorial to honour the 72 people who died in the Grenfell Tower fire on 14 June 2017.

This bill introduces a generational smoke-free and vape-free approach, banning tobacco sales to anyone born after 1 January 2009, strengthening retail controls across all UK nations, and restricting advertising and vaping in public spaces.

Major pension reform affecting 20 million people: consolidates small pension pots, improves investment practices in defined contribution schemes, creates superfunds for struggling schemes, and reforms Local Government Pension Scheme management.

This Bill strengthens victims' rights in the criminal justice system, requires offenders to attend sentencing hearings, restricts parental rights for sex offenders, and expands the Victims' Commissioner's powers.

This bill gives police stronger powers to tackle crime, creates new offences for exploiting children and damaging property, and reforms how sex offenders are managed.

This bill devolves powers to mayors and local authorities across England, restructures audit arrangements, sets national taxi licensing standards, and removes upwards-only rent reviews in business tenancies.

The government increases the money it can spend to help UK industries and support exports. Industrial assistance rises from £12bn to £20bn, and export financing rises from £84bn to £160bn.

This bill removes the cap limiting child element payments in Universal Credit to two children per household, extending welfare support to families with three or more children from April 2026.

This bill removes the remaining ~90 hereditary peers from the House of Lords and abolishes the Lords' role in deciding hereditary peerage claims, completing the removal of hereditary peerage membership begun in 1999.

This Finance Bill makes tax and spending changes including adjustments to employment allowance, changes to property tax reliefs, and modifications to National Insurance contributions affecting employers and specific sectors.

This bill authorizes government spending for 2024-25, 2025-26, and 2026-27, allowing the Treasury to issue funds from the Consolidated Fund. It covers routine budget adjustments and spending approvals across government departments.

This bill establishes a revenue certainty mechanism to support UK sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production by enabling government-backed price guarantees and a levy on aviation fuel suppliers to fund the scheme.

This bill aims to boost research into rare cancers by requiring a regulatory review, appointing a specialist lead, and allowing NHS data to be used to contact patients for clinical trials.

This law makes it easier for UK-trained doctors to get foundation and specialist training jobs by giving them priority in the hiring process.

This bill authorizes government spending for three financial years (ending March 2024, 2025, and 2026), totaling £494.6 billion for 2025-26, and adjusts previous years' budgets.

This bill enables the UK to implement an international agreement on marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction, requiring researchers to share benefits from ocean genetic resources and supporting marine conservation efforts.

This bill shortens the notice period for closing secure schools (custodial academies for young people) from 7 to 2 years, and changes how the government consults on their establishment.

Changes how Parliament approves temporary licensing hour extensions for special occasions. Orders will now take effect automatically unless Parliament votes to reject them, rather than requiring advance approval.

Major sentencing reform introducing presumption to suspend sentences under 12 months, new income reduction orders, tougher rules for dangerous offenders, and changes to bail and foreign criminal deportation.

This bill authorises government spending on a Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre at Victoria Tower Gardens in London, and removes legal restrictions that prevented its construction.

This bill makes it illegal to enter a football stadium without a valid ticket. You can be fined up to £1,000 and banned from matches for years if caught.

This Act establishes an independent Armed Forces Commissioner to investigate welfare issues affecting service personnel and their families, and abolishes the Service Complaints Ombudsman role.

This Act speeds up infrastructure and housing delivery by streamlining planning consents, introducing a nature restoration levy on developers, and reforming compulsory purchase procedures.

Major overhaul of employment law expanding worker protections including guaranteed hours, sick pay, parental leave, unfair dismissal rights, and strengthening trade union powers. Affects millions of UK workers.

This bill makes it mandatory for space operator licences to specify a cap on how much companies must reimburse the UK Government for space-related damage claims, removing unlimited liability barriers for the space industry.

This bill reforms the Mental Health Act 1983 to strengthen patients' rights, limit detention of autistic and learning disabled people, require clinician and patient involvement in treatment decisions, and improve tribunal scrutiny of detention.

This bill makes it easier for police to stop dogs attacking farm animals by letting them seize dogs, take evidence samples, and search properties. It also makes penalties tougher and protects more types of livestock.

This Act transforms UK border security by establishing a Border Security Commander, creating new immigration and serious crime offences, repealing Rwanda asylum provisions, and expanding biometric data collection and information sharing.

This bill restricts importing dogs, cats and ferrets into the UK to protect animal welfare. It bans puppies/kittens under 6 months, heavily pregnant animals, and mutilated animals, and closes loopholes in commercial import rules.

This bill lets courts recognize new types of property like digital assets and crypto-tokens, even if they don't fit traditional legal categories. It clarifies that things don't have to be physically touchable or legally claimable in court to count as property.

New law to combat fraud and error in public services. Gives Cabinet Office and DWP stronger powers to investigate, recover money, and enforce penalties. Affects benefit claimants, public sector employees, and banks.

This bill modernises the regulation of Kensal Green Cemetery and West London Crematorium, enabling transfer to a charity and allowing the burial authority to reuse grave spaces after 75 years of non-use.

This bill transforms rental housing by abolishing no-fault evictions, setting housing quality standards, and creating an ombudsman service for tenant complaints. Landlords get clearer rules for when they can evict, and tenants get stronger protections against discrimination and unfair rent increases.

This Act makes it easier for voters in Scotland and Wales to apply for postal and proxy voting by enabling online applications through the UK Digital Service, and aligns postal voting renewal cycles with reserved elections.

This Act reforms bus services in England by giving local authorities greater control over bus operations through franchising, grants, and new local bus companies, while improving accessibility, safety, and zero-emission vehicle adoption.

This bill prevents people from automatically regaining British citizenship while appealing a deprivation order. It keeps the citizenship removal in effect during the entire appeal process.

Increases Universal Credit standard allowance above inflation for 4 years, but reduces payments for new disabled claimants unless they have severe lifelong conditions.

This bill creates an Independent Football Regulator to license and oversee English football clubs, with powers over club ownership, finance, revenue distribution and competition participation. It affects club owners, fans, and competition organisers.

This bill allows Norwich City Council to relocate its livestock market from its current Hall Road site to a new location that meets modern market standards, with minimum size and accessibility requirements.

This bill gives the Secretary of State power to create regulations on product safety, environmental impact, and measurement standards to protect consumers and support businesses in a modern digital economy.

This bill authorises government spending of £607.8bn for the year ending 31 March 2026, covering current and capital expenditure across all departments.

This bill lets companies share your customer data more easily when you ask them to, creates a trusted digital ID system, and updates data protection rules for the modern internet age.

This bill prevents sentencing guidelines from recommending pre-sentence reports based on an offender's race, religion, or cultural background, ensuring equal treatment regardless of demographic characteristics.