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Bills that have received Royal Assent. The Acts that govern the country, ordered by most recent.

695 Acts on the statute book

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Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023

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A Bill to make provision for the setting of levelling-up missions and reporting on progress in delivering them; about local democracy; about town and country planning; about Community Infrastructure Levy; about the imposition of Infrastructure Levy; about environmental outcome reports for certain consents and plans; about regeneration; about the compulsor…

Presented by Michael Gove.
48% Aye · 52% No · 538 votes

Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Act 2024

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A Bill to make provision to extend the period following the Northern Ireland Assembly election of 5 May 2022 during which Ministers may be appointed.

Presented by Chris Heaton-Harris.
52% Aye · 48% No · 537 votes

National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) Act 2023

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A Bill to make provision for and in connection with reducing the main rates of primary Class 1 national insurance contributions and Class 4 national insurance contributions, and removing the requirement to pay Class 2 national insurance contributions.

Presented by Jeremy Hunt.
51% Aye · 49% No · 517 votes

Energy Act 2023

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A Bill to make provision about energy production and security and the regulation of the energy market, including provision about the licensing of carbon dioxide transport and storage; about commercial arrangements for carbon capture and storage and for hydrogen production and transportation; about new technology, including low-carbon heat schemes and hydr…

Presented by Lord Callanan.
50% Aye · 50% No · 476 votesParliament: 280-19

Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Act 2023

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A Bill to give workers and agency workers the right to request more predictable terms and conditions of work.

Presented by Scott Benton.
51% Aye · 49% No · 514 votes

Procurement Act 2023

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A Bill to make provision about procurement

Presented by Baroness Neville-Rolfe.
50% Aye · 50% No · 527 votes

Non-Domestic Rating Act 2023

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A Bill to make provision about non-domestic rating.

Presented by Michael Gove.
50% Aye · 50% No · 497 votes

Powers of Attorney Act 2023

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A Bill to make provision about lasting powers of attorney; to make provision about proof of instruments creating powers of attorney; and for connected purposes

Presented by Stephen Metcalfe.
52% Aye · 48% No · 520 votes

Firearms Act 2023

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A Bill to make provision about the regulation of certain rifle ranges and shooting galleries; to make provision for an offence in relation to the possession of component parts of ammunition; and for connected purposes.

Presented by Shaun Bailey.
48% Aye · 52% No · 494 votes

Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees Act

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A Bill to make provision about veterans advisory and pensions committees; and for connected purposes.

Presented by Robin Millar.
51% Aye · 49% No · 530 votes

Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Act 2023

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A Bill to make provision about causing intentional harassment, alarm or distress to a person in public where the behaviour is done because of that person’s sex; and for connected purposes.

Presented by Greg Clark.
51% Aye · 49% No · 502 votes

Animals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023

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A Bill to prohibit the sale and advertising of activities abroad which involve low standards of welfare for animals.

Presented by Angela Richardson.
51% Aye · 49% No · 528 votes

Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Act 2023

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A Bill to make provision about the extension of pensions automatic enrolment to jobholders under the age of 22; to make provision about the lower qualifying earnings threshold for automatic enrolment; and for connected purposes.

Presented by Jonathan Gullis.
51% Aye · 49% No · 538 votes

Northern Ireland Budget (No. 2) Act 2023

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A Bill to authorise the use for the public service of certain resources for the year ending 31 March 2024 (including income); to authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland of certain sums for the service of that year; to authorise the use of those sums for specified purposes; to authorise the Department of Finance in Northern Ire…

Presented by Chris Heaton-Harris.
52% Aye · 48% No · 529 votes

Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Act 2023

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A Bill to make provision about the determination of the fee limit for higher education courses provided by registered English higher education providers subject to a fee limit condition; and for connected purposes.

Presented by Gillian Keegan.
51% Aye · 49% No · 506 votes

Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Act 2023

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A Bill to make provision enabling the making of arrangements for the collection of child support maintenance in cases involving domestic abuse

Presented by Sally-Ann Hart.
51% Aye · 49% No · 488 votes

Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023

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A Bill to revoke certain retained EU law; to make provision relating to the interpretation of retained EU law and to its relationship with other law; to make provision relating to powers to modify retained EU law; to enable the restatement, replacement or updating of certain retained EU law; to enable the updating of restatements and replacement provision…

Presented by Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg.
52% Aye · 48% No · 532 votesParliament: 297-238

Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023

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A Bill to make provision about the regulation of social housing; about the terms of approved schemes for the investigation of housing complaints; and for connected purposes.

Presented by Baroness Scott of Bybrook.
53% Aye · 47% No · 518 votes

Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Organ and Tissue Donation) Act 2023

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A Bill to make provision to extend the period following the Northern Ireland Assembly election of 5 May 2022 during which Ministers may be appointed and after which the Secretary of State must propose a date for another election; to allow the Secretary of State to propose a date for another election before Ministers have been appointed; and to amend the p…

Presented by Chris Heaton-Harris.
52% Aye · 48% No · 515 votes

Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023

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A Bill to make provision about minimum service levels in connection with the taking by trade unions of strike action relating to certain services.

Presented by Grant Shapps.
51% Aye · 49% No · 502 votesParliament: 315-246