Sentences with phrase «bill timetable motion»

Graham Allen, a Labour MP, has hinted that he will defy Ed Miliband's order to vote against the Lords reform bill timetable motion.

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Bills are normally debated a final time at Third Reading - but an earlier timetable motion meant that there was no time left for this, so the House proceeded to a Third Reading vote without any further debate.

«I want to speak to the timetable motion rather than to the content of the bill, because it is an insult to the intelligence of the House.

Bryant then points out that when a bill gets through to a second reading, it usually gets some kind of timetable motion putting it in either a public bill committee or a committee of the whole House.

The government will then try again to get agreement on a motion setting out a timetable for the bill's committee stage.

The comment suggests Clegg has reason to fear the bill will run into trouble as rebels prepare to join Labour in voting against the «programme motion» — the timetable motion limiting the amount of time MPs can spend debating the bill as it goes through its remaining stages in the Commons.

Clegg's hopes of reforming the Lords ran into trouble when the government was forced to withdraw a «programme motion» that would have set a timetable for the Lords reform bill, to avert defeat in the face of an alliance of Labour MPs and Tory rebels.

The MPs indicate that they will vote against the bill's timetable motion and, with Labour also voting against it, this means the government is on course for defeat in the vote tomorrow night.

Some government sources have suggested that a heavy defeat on the timetable motion could lead to the bill being abandoned.

Some Lib Dem sources have suggested that a large defeat on the timetable motion could lead to the government pulling the bill now - on the grounds that it would face no prospect of being able to get it through the Commons.

They say that the bill «threatens to pile a constitutional crisis on top of an economic crisis» and that they hope other Conservative MPs will support them «in giving this bill the full and unrestricted scrutiny it deserves» (ie, voting against the timetable motion).

Labour (although theoretically in favour of the bill) will vote against the timetable motion and, with the Tory rebels supporting them, they should be able to shoot it down.

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.

However, despite these painstaking efforts the Labour party and Conservative backbenchers united to block any further progress, preventing government from securing a timetable motion without which the Bill effectively becomes impossible to deliver.

The timetable for the bill's progress through parliament, known as a programme motion, would be voted upon immediately after the bill's second reading, and will be seen as a critical moment in the bill's passage.

If the government loses the timetable motion it would have to raise the white flag and abandon the bill altogether.

There have also been suggestions that the MPs might vote down a guillotine motion designed to timetable a debate on the Lords bill, leading to interminable debates, similar to those that occurred at the time of the Maastricht bill.

Assuming the timetable motion falls, the rebels in theory will be able to hold up the bill by filibustering — debating endlessly.

As his train rattled past the Labour leader's Doncaster North constituency, he blames Miliband as much as Cameron for the failure of Lords reform after Miliband refused to support a timetable motion for the bill.