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Chalk Streams (UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site) Bill
Chalk Streams (UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site) Bill is currently listed at 2nd reading in the House of Commons.
Current position
- Latest completed stage
- 1st reading22 Jun 2026
- Next stage
- 2nd reading
- House
- House of Commons
- Bill type
- Private Members' Bill (Presentation Bill)
- Last updated
- 23 Jun 2026
- Proposer / sponsor
- Pippa Heylings Proposer / sponsor · Liberal Democrat · House of Commons Prepared for future MP profile links
What this bill is about
The Chalk Streams (UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site) Bill (a Private Members’ presentation bill) would require the Secretary of State to take the necessary steps to nominate the UK’s chalk streams to UNESCO as a serial Natural World Heritage Site, if the bill’s provisions are progressed and enacted. The bill’s available information at this stage provides mainly the long title, and no detailed bill text or explanatory notes were included in the sources provided for this draft.
What it would do
- Would require the Secretary of State to take steps toward nominating the UK’s chalk streams as a serial UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site.
- Uses the long title’s wording about UNESCO nomination, but no further details of how this would be carried out were provided.
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1st reading 22 Jun 2026 · House of Commons
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