A Bill to repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011.
House of Commons
30 March 2015
This Bill would repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, returning the power to call general elections to the Prime Minister. Elections would be triggered by the Prime Minister requesting a dissolution and the monarch dissolving Parliament, effectively removing the fixed five-year cycle and the two early-election routes created by the 2011 Act.
Currently at the Second Reading in the House of Commons. If it progresses, it will move to Committee and later to Report and Third Reading, then proceed to the House of Lords for consideration.
Generated 21 February 2026
This Bill was presented to Parliament on 19 January 2015. This is known as the first reading and there was no debate on the Bill at this stage.
This Bill began its second reading on a Friday 6 March 2015, but the debate was then adjourned.
The 2014-15 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
