Sentences with phrase «vote on an amendment tabled»

This week, MPs will vote on an amendment tabled by Dorries and Field that would give the NHS a duty to provide independent counselling to women seeking an abortion, from organisations that do not themselves provide abortions.

With a «hat - trick» of blows, on three crucial issues, votes on amendments tabled by Lords Pannick, Woolf, Carlile and Beecham were decisive.

Not exact matches

That's why this is even on the table right now — to get the first and second votes done with certainty and why a pay raise or constitutional amendment could not be voted on in December 2015.

That's why, as MPs start the second reading of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill on 6 September, I am tabling an amendment that would rewrite the referendum question to allow people to choose from a wider range of voting systems, including properly proportional options such as the additional member system (used in elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Greater London Assembly) and the single transferable vote (used in Northern Ireland).

Budget amendments proposed subsequent to the tabling of the Budget Committee report, or less than forty eight hours prior to the annual meeting, shall be considered separately with each line item voted on individually on the floor of the legislature.

Just minutes before the vote was due, justice minister Dominic Raab said the government would table its own amendment later during the bill's passage through the parliament to put into law the idea of a meaningful vote on the final deal.

The same concern about Returning Officers wanting to delay the counting of votes has now arisen with regard to the Scottish Parliament elections taking place in May, and Labour tabled an amendment to the Scotland Bill in the Commons on Monday seeking to give Returning Officers the same duty with respect to Holyrood elections as for Westminster elections.

The claims come as peers prepare to vote on an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill tabled in the Lords by Labour peer Waheed Alli on Tuesday.

Labour MP Jon Trickett, who will table an amendment calling for more consideration, said: «It is of course unprecedented for a government to offer parliament a vote on such a matter and that is to be welcomed, but the case has simply not been made that we need to replace Trident, and crucially, that a decision must be taken now.

The major amendment, tabled by Viscount Hailsham (pictured) to the flagship Brexit laws going through Parliament radically strengthens the so - called «meaningful vote» on the final deal.

The House of Lords will start debating the Article 50 bill on Monday with amendments tabled to guarantee the rights of EU citizens in the UK, for greater scrutiny on the process and for a «meaningful vote» at the end of Brexit negotiations.

«John Baron and Peter Bone table a cunning EU referendum amendment Main Cameron should vote for the amendment on an EU referendum bill»

But peers are also expected to vote on one of three amendments tabled by the Labour peer Lord Alli saying that saying in the European Economic Area - ie, staying in the single market, like Norway - should be a negotiating objective for the government.

By a 29 - to - 52 vote, the senators failed to table the measure, which was offered on Oct. 20 as an amendment to the fiscal 1984 Justice Department appropriation bill by Senator Jesse A. Helms, Republican of North Carolina.