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  Growth and Infrastructure Bill - Third Reading
  
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  The majority of MPs voted to approve the Growth and Infrastructure Bill[1][2] at its third reading; supporting the Bill as it stood and allowing it to continue on its path to becoming law.
  
  Key provisions of the Bill included:
  
  * introducing a new employment status of "employee shareholder" and for those with such status to be exempted from certain statutory employment rights. 
  * introducing an option for planning applications to be made directly to the Secretary of State in areas where the local planning authority is deemed to be performing poorly 
  * postponing the next non-domestic rating revaluation from 2015 to 2017,
  
  A wide variety of other measures relating to subjects including the planning process, town or village greens, commons, and energy infrastructure projects were included in the Bill.
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/growthandinfrastructure.html Parliament's webpage on the Growth and Infrastructure Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2012-2013/0075/en/13075en.htm Explanatory notes to the Growth and Infrastructure Bill]
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