Sentences with phrase «mps at the committee stage»

While most legislation is looked at by a small group of MPs at the committee stage, as a major constitutional bill, this one will be scrutinised on the floor of the commons.

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Similarly, English - and - Welsh - only bills would be considered at committee stage only by MPs from England and Wales.

England - only bills would be amended and voted on at their committee stage only by English MPs.

The UK justice secretary Kenneth Clarke's democracy taskforce proposed allowing only English MPs to sit at the committee stage of an English - only bill until a final vote, when it would return to the full Commons.

MPs have already spent almost 50 hours debating the EU withdrawal bill at committee stage and so far the government has not lost a vote.

Clegg's concession made little impression on the many Tory MPs critical of his plans and the government still seems to be on course to lose the vote tomorrow night on the timetable motion that would allow MPs 10 days to debate the bill at its committee stage.

In his speech on Monday to open the two - day Commons debate on Lords reform, the deputy prime minister said he was willing to allow MPs to debate at the committee stage of the bill whether to pause the legislation after the first elections in 2015.

If a vote were held at committee stage on this coalition, MPs would be instructed to vote against it, the sources said.

During the legislative process, most bills are sent to a Committee stage when a group of at least 11 MPs consider the proposed Act clause by clause in detail.

Sally Collier, the chief regulator of Ofqual, told MPs on the parliamentary education committee this morning that the 52 - per - cent increase in the number of grade changes this year resulted from problems at the review stage, rather than the original marks.