A Bill to promote public ownership of public services; to introduce a presumption in favour of service provision by public sector and not-for-profit entities; and to put in place mechanisms to increase the accountability, transparency and public control of public services, including those operated by private companies.
House of Commons
30 March 2015
The bill aims to put more public ownership of public services in place and create a default preference for services to be run by the public sector or not-for-profit organisations. It also sets out rules to boost accountability, transparency and public control of services, including those currently run by private companies.
The bill is at the Second Reading in the House of Commons. If it progresses, it will move to Committee stage for detailed examination, followed by a Third Reading and consideration by the House of Lords.
Generated 21 February 2026
This Bill was presented to Parliament on 7 July 2014. This is known as the first reading and there was no debate on the Bill at this stage.
The 2014-15 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
