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 "id": "bills-by-stage",
 "title": "Bills before Parliament by stage",
 "category": "parliament",
 "summary": "Bills in the current session of the UK Parliament that are not yet law, counted by the stage each has reached, for government bills and for all other bills, on the day the data was retrieved.",
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  "Bills that have been defeated or withdrawn, or have become Acts, are left out. \"Other bills\" are private members' bills, private bills and hybrid bills."
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  "session_id": 40,
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   "Commons: Consideration of Lords amendments": 12,
   "Lords: Committee stage": 3,
   "Commons: Committee stage": 8,
   "Lords: 3rd reading": 5,
   "Commons: Report stage": 9,
   "Lords: 2nd reading": 2,
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   "Commons: Motion to revive Bill": 32,
   "Commons: 3rd reading": 10
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 "headline": {
  "label": "Bills before Parliament",
  "value": 194.0,
  "period": "2026-11-09",
  "note": "20 of them government bills"
 },
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     "x": "Commons: Motion to revive Bill",
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     "x": "Lords: Motion to revive Bill",
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     "x": "Commons: 2nd reading",
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    },
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     "x": "Lords: Report stage",
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