A Bill to establish the Office for Demographic Change with the duty of collecting evidence about and analysing the impact of population change, and considering future changes in the population of the United Kingdom and their consequences; and for connected purposes
House of Lords
28 April 2022
The bill would create the Office for Demographic Change. The office would collect evidence about population change, analyse its impact, and consider future population trends in the United Kingdom and what consequences those changes might have. It would also be able to do related work to support these duties.
The bill is currently at the second reading in the House of Lords. If progressed, it would move on to committee stage, then further readings before potentially moving to the House of Commons.
Generated 21 February 2026
Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - took place on 4 March.
Committee stage - line by line examination of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.
The 2021-2022 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
