Hansard References
18.The following table sets out the dates and Hansard references for each stage of the Act’s passage through Parliament.
19.In addition, the Bill for the Act was in substantially the same terms as a Bill, as amended in Public Bill Committee in the House of Commons and originally called the Local Government Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill, that failed to make sufficient progress in an earlier Session of Parliament: see, in particular, the debates in the House of Commons on 18 March 2011 and 8 December 2011, and in the Public Bill Committee on 11 January 2012.