Sentences with phrase «timetable motion»

The second thing that needs to happen is to vote for a Commons timetable motion which ensures that the bill can get through all the stages of its parliamentary passage in the time available.

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.

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.

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

There is half a chance that, with opponents of the legislation determined to resist it through every means at their disposal, the coalition could find this particular timetable motion disputed - and defeated.

Labour backs the switch to an 80 % elected second chamber in principle, but has effectively blocked the measure by opposing the government's timetable motion which would have secured its passage through the Commons.

«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.

«That is why we agreed to withdraw today's timetabling motion, to allow the Conservative team in government take more time over the summer to talk to their backbench colleagues.»

«The government will move a timetable motion...»

Labour has said it will not support a timetable motion, but if a particular debate goes on too long it will be prepared to vote for closure motions to allow that stage of the debate to be terminated.

«They delivered lofty speeches about the need to give the people a say about how to elect the legislators in the other place, but they wouldn't even tell us how many days they wanted for the timetable motion to make that lofty rhetoric a reality.

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.

But the second, and most crucial, vote will follow straight after, when the government tries to get MPs to approve the timetable motion limiting the amount of time MPs can spend debating the bill as it goes through its remaining stages in the Commons.

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.

And, as the BBC's Norman Smith reports, the Tory whips are encouraging their rebels to vote against the second reading if they have to, but not the timetable motion.

He's been reading the Guardian this morning and he said that the Peter Hain quote in our story about Lords reform illustrated why Conservative MPs should vote for the government's timetable motion.

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).

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.

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.

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 first real opportunity for enemies of reform to make the coalition's life hell comes in the timetable motion.

Up to 100 MPs could reject the proposals when the timetable motion is put forward in the Commons before the summer recess.

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

They want to do everything they can to undermine and ultimately bring down the opposition, and think backing the Tory rebels and defeating the timetable motion is a thoroughly excellent way of doing this.

In addition to the timetable motion the government has another lever which it can pull: the guillotine motion.

As is well - established, getting MPs to shut up is virtually impossible, so governments use the timetable motion to limit the amount of time MPs get to debate legislation for.

Timetable motions are used lots these days, despite being a perennial target for opposition whingeing, in order to ensure that the government can control the pace at which it ticks the boxes of its legislative agenda.

If ministers really wanted to, they could repeat the timetable motion struggle again and again, in a series of smaller - scale skirmishes.

14 MPs rebelled on the timetable motion (13 opposing and 1 registering a positive abstention by voting in both lobbies) which provided for its rapid passage through the Commons and 7 defied the whip to vote against the Bill's Second Reading.

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

When MPs are considering legislation, they normally pass a timetable motion setting out how many days will be set aside for debate.

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.