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Department for Work and Pensions (Electronic File retention) Bill 2009-10

Type of Bill:
Private Members' Bill (Presentation Bill)
Sponsor:
Harry Cohen

Progress of the Bill

Bill started in the House of Commons

  1. House of Commons
    1. 1st reading
    2. 2nd reading
    3. Committee stage
    4. Report stage
    5. 3rd reading
  2. House of Lords
    1. 1st reading
    2. 2nd reading
    3. Committee stage
    4. Report stage
    5. 3rd reading
  3. Consideration of Amendments
  4. Royal Assent

Last event

Latest Bill

House Bill Date
Commons Bill 66 09-10 (as Presented on 10 February 2010) | PDF version, 72KB 03.03.2010

Latest news on the Bill

This Bill was presented to Parliament on 10 February 2010. This is known as First Reading and there was no debate on the Bill at this stage. 

The 2009-10 session of parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.

Summary of the Bill

A Bill to exempt the Department for Work and Pensions from statutory requirements to retain files in written form where it holds electronic files of the information in an approved form; and for connected purposes.

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