Bills · Government Bill · 2024-26

Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025: stages, votes and documents

The Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025, 282 days after its first reading in the House of Commons on 11 March 2025. MPs divided on it 18 times between 24 March 2025 and 13 November 2025; the narrowest margin was 112 (motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 40).

What the bill is for

The long title reads:

A Bill to make provision about infrastructure; to make provision about town and country planning; to make provision for a scheme, administered by Natural England, for a nature restoration levy payable by developers; to make provision about development corporations; to make provision about the compulsory purchase of land; to make provision about environmental outcomes reports; and for connected purposes.

Sponsors

• Angela Rayner (Labour, Commons), Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Labour, Lords), Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Stages

Commons divisions on this bill

Documents

Act of Parliament

• Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (c. 34) 18 December 2025

Bill

• Bill 196 2024-25 (as introduced) 11 March 2025
• Bill 250 2024-25 (as amended in Public Bill Committee) 23 May 2025
• bill-250.html 23 May 2025
• 5901110.pdf · 5901110.html · 5901110.xml 12 June 2025
• 5901134.pdf · 5901134.xml · 5901134.html 17 September 2025
• 5901143.pdf · 5901143.html · 5901143.xml 3 November 2025
• Bill 328 2024-26 (Lords Amendments) 10 November 2025
• 5901147.pdf 17 November 2025
• Bill 338 2024-26 (Lords insistence and reason) 25 November 2025
• 5901153.pdf 8 December 2025

Explanatory Notes

• Bill 196 EN 2024-25 11 March 2025
• HL Bill 110 Explanatory Notes · 5901110-EN.pdf 12 June 2025
• Bill 328 EN 2024-26 (Lords Amendments) 11 November 2025

Impact Assessments

• Impact Assessment from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government 6 May 2025

Delegated Powers Memorandum

• Memorandum from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee 11 March 2025
• Supplementary Memorandum from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee - April 2025 24 April 2025
• Supplementary Memorandum no. 2 from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee - May 2025 12 May 2025
• PlanningandInfrastructureBillDPM.pdf 13 June 2025
• Planning and Infrastructure Bill - Supplementary Delegated Powers Memorandum.pdf 17 July 2025
• 251013 - Lords Report supplementary DPM.pdf 14 October 2025
• PlanningandInfrastructureBillThirdSuppDPM.pdf 6 November 2025
• Supplementary Memorandum from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee - 11 November 2025 12 November 2025

Briefing papers

• Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2024-25 21 March 2025
• Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2024-25: Progress of the bill 5 June 2025
• Planning and Infrastructure Bill: Bill 110 of 2024–25 19 June 2025
• Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2024-26 – Consideration of Lords amendments 11 November 2025

Official record

• UK Parliament Bills: Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025

Sources

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