Sentences with phrase «minor policy amendment»

Not exact matches

Although ministers offered a series of minor concessions intended to satisfy the many Labour MPs who signed an amendment attacking government policy, MPs voted by a majority of 21 to back a Liberal Democrat demand for «an equal right of residence for all Gurkhas».

My understanding of «Omnibus Bills» is that they are essentially «housekeeping bills» to make minor amendments to a number of statutes, but not to be used for the transmission of government policy, so you are right in this.