A Bill to make provision for the holding of a referendum in the United Kingdom and Gibraltar on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union.
House of Commons
8 March 2021
This Bill would require the United Kingdom, including Gibraltar, to hold a referendum on whether the UK should remain a member of the European Union. It sets out the framework for running the referendum and for how the result should be treated in decision-making about EU membership.
The bill is at the Committee Stage in the Commons, where it will be examined in detail and may receive amendments before progressing to the next stages.
Generated 21 February 2026
This Bill was presented to Parliament through the ballot procedure on 2 July 2014. This is known as the first reading and there was no debate on the Bill at this stage. The Bill had its second reading debate on 17 October 2014.
This Bill was committed to a Public Bill Committee but a money resolution was not passed by the House, therefore the Bill was unable to progress any further.
The 2014-15 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
