Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt (pictured) told Parliament that he would table
amendments at the committee stage — expected to begin next week.
Not exact matches
As the Children's Schools and Families Bill 2009/2010 hurtles towards Royal Assent via the debating of
committee stage amendments, there is a great deal
at stake for home schoolers in particular and liberty in general.
At the end of the
committee stage of the Article 50 Bill in the Commons, it felt as if the debates on the hundreds of
amendments and new clauses had been going on for 40 years.
The most common pattern during Lords consideration of bills is for
amendments to be discussed
at committee stage, for ministers to agree to think about them, and for peers to force votes
at report
stage or third reading only if dissatisfied by the government's later response.
Critics have historically argued that the
committees have no real purpose beyond being a kind of «mini-me» image of the Commons as whole, always dominated by a government majority and chair, and with over 99 % of ministerial
amendments moved
at the
Committee or report
stages, and a success rate for non-government
amendments of below 1 %.
These
committee stages are usually hectic, with very large groups of
amendments being debated
at the same time.
The House yesterday debated the proposal, originally put forward by Parliament First (the All - Party Parliamentary Group on reform of parliamentary procedure which I chair), that all
amendments tabled
at the
committee and report
stages of bills should have to be accompanied by an explanation of their purpose in no more than 50 words.
The House yesterday debated the proposal, originally put forward by Parliament First (the All - Party Parliamentary Group on reform of parliamentary procedure which I chair), that all
amendments tabled
at the
committee and report
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But Ms Abbott revealed today that Labour could refuse to back triggering the two - year Brexit process in the third reading of the bill if the
amendments are not added
at committee stage.
Although the 2014 Stronger Workplaces for a Stronger Economy Act (Bill 18) originally included a statutory
amendment to have experience rating premium costs borne by the client company, this was removed
at the
committee stage and replaced by a provision giving the government authorization to make regulations on this issue.