Sentences with phrase «votes at committee stage»

But on issues where tension is running high, and ministers appear intransigent, votes at committee stage do often occur.

Not exact matches

England - only bills would be amended and voted on at their committee stage only by English MPs.

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 government on Wednesday set out areas of agreement between it and the joint committee: a mainly elected chamber, elected members voted on a system of single transferable vote, staggered elections with one third coming up for renewal at a time, peers to serve 15 - year terms, current peers to leave in stages, a reduced number of peers, and powers to expel peers.

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.

MPs have already spent almost 50 hours debating the EU withdrawal bill at committee stage and so far the government has not lost a vote.

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.

If a vote were held at committee stage on this coalition, MPs would be instructed to vote against it, the sources said.

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;