Finance Bills and parliamentary bill material

Source universe · Acquisition routes

Primary authority · Official feed · Public

Published by UK Parliament, HM Treasury. Jurisdiction: UK.

What it covers

• draft tax legislation
• bill stages
• amendments
• explanatory notes

Publication and history

Documents and stage status change during passage, then the enacted Act becomes a separate controlling source.

Current and prior bill publications retained by Parliament; a bill is never represented as enacted law.

Review cadence: Event driven. Reliability: Controlling authority.

Acquisition and rights

• Acquisition: Official feed

• Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0

• Commercial reuse: Permitted with attribution

• Raw storage: Permitted

• Derived assertions: Permitted

• Public use: Attributed derived content

• Visibility: Public

Monitor official bill stage feeds and documents; preserve draft status and never merge proposals into current law.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; credited third-party material remains excluded.

Evidence for this decision

• UK Parliament Bills — Access evidence, reviewed 11 September 2026.
• Parliament copyright — Licence evidence, reviewed 11 September 2026.

Source registry: sterling-source-registry@2026-09-11.5. Last reviewed 11 September 2026.