Explanatory notes for bills: new format

Working with colleagues from the Cabinet Office, Parliament and the Legislation team at the National Archives, the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel has helped to develop a proposed new format for explanatory notes. The new format aims to make them accessible in a user friendly form across multiple platforms.

If you have any comments or suggestions on the new format, please email good.law@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible (and by 31 January 2015 at the latest).

You can also read HTML versions of these explanatory notes:

• HTML version of Armed Forces (Service Complaints and Financial Assistance Bill
• HTML version of Lords Spiritual (Women) Bill