How to Find Primary Legislation on

www.parliament.uk

Nerys Davies

Primary Legislation – Bills pages

• All of the Bills before Parliament

• This shows the stage the Bill has reached

• New list of amendments• Any reports from

Parliament will be linked on these pages

http://www.parliament.uk/business/bills-and-legislation/

Specific Bills Pages• Each bill has a diagram of where the Bill is in each House and

which stage is coming up next• These link thorough to Hansard

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/europeanunionreferendum.html

Bill StagesAll stages of the bill are on this page with links to Hansard

Bill DocumentsThe Bill documents can all be found on this page:

• The Bill, each time it is reprinted• Explanatory notes• Amendment papers• Public Bill Committee and report

stage proceedings: Commons• Briefing papers• Selection of amendments:

Commons• Press Notices• Compare versions of Bills• Impact Assessments

Public Bill Committee – House of Commons

• Each Bill, if it has a Public Bill Committee, has its membership on these pages

House of Commons Library

• The House of Commons library briefings offer impartial analysis and statistical data

http://www.parliament.uk/commons-library • Legislation briefings are on the bills pages• Also a commons library blog for recent papershttp://commonslibraryblog.com/

Where can I get information?• www.parliament.uk and @UKParliament

• Commons Information Office020 7219 4272 hcinfo@parliament.uk

• Lords Information Office020 7219 3107 hlinfo@parliament.uk

• Parliament’s Outreach Service020 7219 1650 parliamentaryoutreach@parliament.uk @UKParlOutreach