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SUPPLEMENT TO THE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS

Wednesday 24 November 2010

Committee of the whole House

Proceedings

Fixed-term Parliaments Bill

[Second Day]

Mr Graham Allen

Mrs Eleanor Laing

Sir Peter Soulsby

Not called  32

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  9,  leave out subsection (4) and insert—

‘(4)
In determining the polling day for a parliamentary general election under

subsection (3) above, no account shall be taken of any early parliamentary general

election the polling day for which was appointed under section 2.’.

Jonathan Edwards

Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil

Edward Miliband

Sadiq Khan

Chris Bryant

Not called  13

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  13,  leave out ‘“fifth” there were substituted “fourth”’ and

insert ‘“fourth” there were substituted “third”’.

Austin Mitchell

Not called  9

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  13,  leave out ‘fifth’ and insert ‘third’.

Austin Mitchell

Not called  10

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  13,  leave out ‘“fourth”’ and insert ‘“second”’.

Edward Miliband

Sadiq Khan

Chris Bryant

Not selected  20

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  13,  at end insert—

‘(4A)
If the polling day for a subsequent election was appointed under subsections (3)

or (4), a Boundary Commission must submit a report 18 months before the date

of next appointed general election, notwithstanding section 3 of the

Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.’.

Committee of the whole House Proceedings: 24 November 2010
328

Fixed-term Parliaments Bill, continued

Clause Agreed to on division.

Mr Graham Allen

Mrs Eleanor Laing

Sir Peter Soulsby

Withdrawn  33

Clause  2,  page  1,  line  22,  leave out from ‘if’ to end of Clause and add ‘on an

address presented to Her Majesty by the House of Commons praying that a day be the

polling day for an early parliamentary general election, Her Majesty appoints this day by

proclamation to be the polling day for such an election.

(2)
No motion shall be made for such an address except by the Prime Minister acting

with the agreement of—

(a)
the Leader of the Opposition; and

(b)
each member of the House of Commons who at the time of the motion

being made is the registered leader of a registered party that received

more than 20 per cent. of the total votes cast at the previous parliamentary

general election.

(3)
An early parliamentary general election shall not otherwise take place.

(4)
Subsection (1) applies for the purposes of the Timetable in rule 1 in Schedule 1

to the Representation of the People Act 1983.

(5)
In this section—

“Leader of the Opposition” means the person who is the Leader of the

Opposition in the House of Commons for the purposes of section 2 of the

Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975;

“registered leader”, in relation to a party, means the person registered as that

party’s leader in accordance with section 24 of the Political Parties,

Elections and Referendums Act 2000;

“registered party” means a party registered in a register of political parties

maintained by the Electoral Commission in accordance with section 23

of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.’.

Edward Miliband

Sadiq Khan

Chris Bryant

Not moved  21

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  2,  leave out ‘early’ and insert ‘immediate’.

Mr William Cash

Edward Miliband

Sadiq Khan

Chris Bryant

Mr George Howarth

Mr Brian Binley

Mr Edward Leigh

Mr David Nuttall

Mr Christopher Chope

Negatived on division  4

Clause  2,  page  2,  leave out lines 3 to 7.

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Fixed-term Parliaments Bill, continued

Mr William Cash

Mr George Howarth

Mr Brian Binley

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mr Bernard Jenkin

Mr Richard Shepherd

Mr Edward Leigh

Mr David Nuttall

Mr Christopher Chope

Question proposed  5

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  11,  leave out from ‘Government’ to end of line 14.

Progress reported.



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