MPs consider Lords amendments to Infrastructure Bill
11 February 2015 (updated on 11 February 2015)
MPs debated amendments made by the House of Lords to the Infrastructure Bill, on Wednesday 11 February 2015.
The Commons agreed with Lords amendments and the Bill is now awaiting Royal Assent.
- Watch Parliament TV: MPs consider Lords Amendments to the Infrastructure Bill
- Read Commons Hansard: MPs consider Lords Amendments to the Infrastructure Bill
- Read the Lords Amendments to the Infrastructure Bill
- Read current Parliamentary material in Topics: Planning
Related information
Summary of the Bill
A Bill to make provision for strategic highways companies and the funding of transport services by land; to make provision for the control of invasive non-native species; to make provision about nationally significant infrastructure projects; to make provision about town and country planning; to make provision about the Homes and Communities Agency and Mayoral development corporations; to make provision about the Greater London Authority so far as it exercises functions for the purposes of housing and regeneration; to make provision about Her Majesty’s Land Registry and local land charges; to make provision to enable building regulations to provide for off-site carbon abatement measures; to make provision for giving members of communities the right to buy stakes in local renewable electricity generation facilities; to make provision about maximising economic recovery of petroleum in the United Kingdom; to provide for a levy to be charged on holders of certain energy licences; to enable Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to exercise functions in connection with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative; to make provision for underground access to deep-level land for the purposes of exploiting petroleum or deep geothermal energy; to make provision about renewable heat incentives; to make provision about the reimbursement of persons who have paid for electricity connections; to make provision to enable the Public Works Loan Commissioners to be abolished; and for connected purposes.
Progress of the Bill
The House of Lords considered the Commons amendments to the Bill on 9 February.
Outstanding issues on the Bill were returned to the Commons for consideration.
Keep up to date with all the proceedings and documentation, including amendment papers on the Infrastructure Bill and find out how a Bill becomes an Act of Parliament.
House of Commons Library analysis
The House of Commons Library produces briefing papers to inform MPs of key issues. The papers contain factual information and a range of opinions on each subject, and aim to be politically impartial.
- Read Library Briefing Paper: Infrastructure Bill
- Read Library Briefing Paper: Infrastructure Bill: Planning Provisions
Lords Amendments
When a Bill has passed through third reading in both Houses it is returned to the first House (where it started) for the second House's amendments (proposals for change) to be considered.
Both Houses must agree on the exact wording of the Bill. There is no set time period between the third reading of a Bill and consideration of any Commons or Lords amendments.
What happens after consideration of amendments?
Once the Commons and Lords agree on the final version of the Bill, it can receive Royal Assent and become an Act of Parliament (the proposals of the Bill now become law).
Watching proceedings from the public gallery
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