Sentences with phrase «at their committee stage only»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The resolution, proposed by Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar and Sudan, and adopted recently at the committee stage, used only Muslim names for the holy sites of Jerusalem's Old City referring to it only as al - Aqsa Mosque / al - Haram al - Sharif (Noble Sanctuary in Arabic).

changing the voting rules at the last stage of the comitology procedure (the Appeal Committee), so that only votes in favour or against an act are taken into account; this will reduce the use of abstentions and the number of situations where the Committee is unable to take a position and the Commission is obliged to act without a clear mandate from the Member States;