Space Industry (Indemnities) Act 2025

Commons bill Private Members' Bill (Ballot) 2025-26 Act of Parliament

A Private Members' Bill introduced through the annual ballot, which gives backbench MPs a chance to secure Friday debate time. Ballot bills are the only PMBs with a realistic prospect of becoming law without government support.

Sponsor

John Grady

+ 1 co-sponsor

Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Conservative)

Introduced

16 October 2024

Royal Assent

18 December 2025

Parliament

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About this bill

A Bill to require operator licences authorising the carrying out of spaceflight activities to specify the licensee's indemnity limit.

Parliamentary stages

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Commons

✓ First reading 16 Oct 2024

✓ Second reading 7 Mar 2025↗

✓ Committee stage 18 Jun 2025↗

✓ Third reading 4 Jul 2025

Lords

✓ First reading 7 Jul 2025

✓ Second reading 5 Sep 2025

✓ Order Of Commitment Discharged 4 Nov 2025

✓ Third reading 12 Dec 2025

Final stages

✓ Royal Assent 18 Dec 2025

Some stage debates occurred before our Hansard archive begins (May 2025). Links marked ↗ go to Parliament's own Hansard for that date.

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What this bill is about

From the Explanatory Notes (July 2025):

1 This Bill amends the Space Industry Act 2018 to provide that spaceflight operator licences must specify a limit on the amount of the licensee’s liability to indemnify the United Kingdom Government and other particular persons or bodies against any claims brought against the government, or the person or body, in respect of damage or loss arising out of or in connection with spaceflight activities authorised by the licence.

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