Wikidata:Property proposal/parliament.uk bill ID

‎parliament.uk bill ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

   Done: UK Parliament bill ID (P13617) (Talk and documentation)

Description	Identifier for a bill or act on parliament.uk
Data type	External identifier
Domain	UK legislation
Allowed values	[1-9]\d*
Example 1	House of Lords Reform Bill 2012 (Q5915119) → 1067
Example 2	Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill (Q107366106) → 2880
Example 3	Steel Industry (Special Measures) Act 2025 (Q133860904) → 3961
Example 4	Video Recordings Act 2010 (Q7927867) → 567
Source	https://bills.parliament.uk/
Mix'n'match	6909
Number of IDs in source	unknown
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/$1
URL match pattern	^https?:\/\/bills\.parliament\.uk\/bills\/(\d+)
See also	parliament.uk member ID (P10428)
Single-value constraint	yes
Distinct-values constraint	yes

Motivation

bill.parliament.uk has details of proposed bills and passed acts not covered by legislation.gov.uk ID (P3343). UndefinedRachel (talk)

Discussion

•  Support Looks like a good reference. ArthurPSmith (talk) 00:50, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
•  Support. Very useful. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:09, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
•  Comment The lowest identifier I can find is https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/26 (first proposed Febuary 2007). and the earliest are https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/140 (Febuary 2005) and https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/208/stages (November 2004). Is there a way of indicating a cut off point for when the property is valid? If we can find the truly earliest bill on the website, are all bills proposed after that point listed? Secondly, is there an applicable qualifier for stages such as royal assent (Q1070654) or eg "3rd reading in House of Lords" (would likely need to either invent new Q IDs or use series ordinal (P1545)). Tæppa (talk)
•  Support Ainali (talk) 07:03, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

  Question: (and I support this proposal regardless of the answer, I am just curious) Is there a way to see the connection between bills in this database and what ends up in legislation.gov.uk-ID? Ainali (talk) 07:06, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

  Yes. a link to the corresponding legislation.gov.uk page is add to the bills.parliament.uk page (and its RSS feed) when a bill becomes law (https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3961 See "Get file" button). I plan to write a script to extract the details for easy matching. UndefinedRachel (talk) 09:12, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

  That's excellent, thanks! Ainali (talk) 08:56, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

• @UndefinedRachel, ArthurPSmith, Pigsonthewing, Ainali:--Trade (talk) 22:57, 21 June 2025 (UTC)