Parallel Parliament
UK bill-tracking service that monitors parliamentary legislation status in real time.
Last refreshed: 26 April 2026 · Appears in 2 active topics
How does Parallel Parliament's bill-tracking reveal which legislation survives wash-up before an election?
Timeline for Parallel Parliament
Debated bringing MSPs and data centres into critical-infrastructure scope
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences: UK cyber bill hits Lords with £17m capVoted 72 to 55 to demand Westminster grant a Section 30 order for a second independence referendum
UK Local Elections 2026: Holyrood demands a vote it cannot forceOpened its first sitting of the new parliament on 14 May
UK Local Elections 2026: Swinney pushes Section 30, seven shortMentioned in: Bute House, No 10 split on phone call
UK Local Elections 2026Mentioned in: Findlay refuses to quit Tory leadership
UK Local Elections 2026What is Parallel Parliament and how does it track UK bills?
Background
Parallel Parliament is a UK parliamentary intelligence and bill-tracking service that monitors the progress of legislation through both Houses of Parliament in real time. It tracks readings, committee stages, amendments, and Royal Assent for every live bill, making it a resource used by journalists, lobbyists, lawyers, and civil society organisations monitoring specific legislative developments.
During the 2026 election cycle, Parallel Parliament has been the primary source cited for tracking the progress of the Representation of the People Bill through its Public Bill Committee stage, and for confirming its exclusion from the parliamentary wash-up list. Its real-time tracking of the bill's stall at the 9th Commons committee sitting and its absence from the four named wash-up bills became the definitive source for the story that the retrospective Cryptocurrency donation ban would not become law before 7 May.
The service is particularly relevant during compressed legislative periods such as wash-up, when bills move rapidly through remaining stages or fall entirely, and tracking exact stage and timing is commercially and politically significant.
