Responding to pressure from various groups, the government tabled amendments to the Housing and Regeneration Bill which were incorporated into the Bill
at report stage in the commons.
On government
bills at report stage MPs frequently vote without knowing what they're voting for, but just blindly follow the Whips.
As I said in
debate at report stage, members talk about this being a technical bill and that we need to recognize it is too detailed for Canadians.
In practice, the privileges of the Official Opposition go far further, for example through frontbenchers» established right to speak at the start and end of most debates, and to intervene during oral question times (including Prime Minister's Questions), plus an expectation that the Speaker will select important opposition amendments for debate
at report stage of government bills.
The Data Protection Bill will implement GDPR provisions into UK law — the Bar Council is hoping its concerns over legal professional privilege and immigration law will be tabled as
amendments at Report Stage.
[20] In his reference to «procedural
fairness at the reporting stage», Professor Mullan was alluding to the entitlement councillors have to procedural fairness in the course of the Integrity Commissioner's investigation.
The welfare reform bill is
now at report stage in the Lords, after which it will return to the Commons.
But she can't be sure of Commons
victory at report stage until she knows what deal she can strike with Brussels over transition period and beyond.
The English veto vote would come after the final opportunities to amend the bill take
place at report stage.
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.
His comments may seem surprising given the divisions exposed within the Labour party during discussions on the education and inspections bill, with 69 backbench MPs
rebelling at the report stage.
At the report stage of bills when the House as a whole has a change to change important legislation, most MPs follow their own Whips into the lobby and haven't taken the trouble to find out what they're voting for.
The Government subsequently introduced an
amendment at Report Stage to add academies to the list of public bodies, persons or office holders covered by the FOI Act so that academies must comply with the requirements of FOI.
[19] Professor Mullan went on to observe that the notion of allowing a councillor to participate in a debate about proposed sanctions against himself or herself should not be viewed as a conflict of interest and that Council should not be absolved of the obligation to extend procedural fairness simply because the Integrity Commissioner might have given procedural
fairness at the reporting stage.
Lord Woolf did vote for amendments to the Bill but
at its Report Stage in the Lords he said this: «In generality, the proposals contained in the Bill have a great advantage over the existing process of public interest immunity: they allow the judge to have the material in a way which ensures that the interests of national security are protected.»
Meanwhile the marriage (same sex couples) bill undergoes its long journey through parliament, finding
itself at the report stage in the House of Lords on Monday.
So yesterday,
at report stage, Henry and Edward argued in their «new clause 2» that the review should be independent — not undertaken by the Lord Chancellor.
That Bill C - 2, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, be concurred in
at report stage.
Bill C - 389, a private member's bill entitled An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression) was «concurred in
at report stage» in Parliament yesterday, and now will move on to third reading.