UK Legislation & Bills API — Search Acts, Statutory Instruments & Pending Bills

The UK has over 60,000 items of primary and secondary legislation on legislation.gov.uk, and Parliament introduces 30-50 new bills per session. Legal tech companies, compliance platforms, and policy researchers need to search this corpus, track changes, and monitor pending legislation — but legislation.gov.uk and the Parliament Bills API are separate services with different structures and no cross-referencing. The Legal Intelligence endpoint searches both simultaneously: find existing legislation by keyword and see related pending bills that could change the legal landscape. For compliance teams, it answers two questions in one call: what does the law currently say, and what might change?

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  "https://www.ukdatapi.com/api/v1/legal/data%20protection"

{
  "data": {
    "query": "data protection",
    "legislation": [
      { "title": "Data Protection Act 2018", "type": "ukpga", "year": "2018", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12" },
      { "title": "The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019", "type": "uksi", "year": "2019", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/419" }
    ],
    "pending_bills": [
      { "title": "Data Protection and Digital Information Bill", "stage": "Committee stage", "url": "https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3430" }
    ],
    "total_legislation": 47,
    "total_bills": 1
  }
}