A Bill to make provision for a national referendum on whether the proposed construction of the HS2 railway should be supported financially by the UK taxpayer.
House of Commons
Sir Christopher ChopeConservative
30 March 2015
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This bill would require a national referendum to decide whether the government should fund the HS2 railway with taxpayers' money. If the referendum supported funding, public money could be used to build HS2; if not, funding would be blocked. The measure concerns HS2 specifically and was introduced in the House of Commons as a private member's bill.
The bill began in the Commons, with a first reading in July 2014 and a second reading in January 2015. It remains at the 2nd reading in the Commons, and no later stages are shown in the available records.
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7 Jul 2014
23 Jan 2015
This Bill was a Private Member’s Bill and 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.
A motion for the Bill’s second reading was moved on 23 January 2015, but was withdrawn at the end of the debate.
The 2014-15 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
