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SUPPLEMENT TO THE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS

 
 

Tuesday 18 January 2011

 

Report Stage Proceedings

 

Fixed-term Parliaments Bill, As Amended


 

new clauses

 

National Assembly for Wales: terms

 

Jonathan Edwards

 

Not selected  NC1

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Government of Wales Act 2006 is amended as follows.

 

(2)    

In section 3, for subsection (1) there is substituted.

 

“(1)    

After the ordinary general election in 2011, and subject to the coming

 

into force of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, the poll at an ordinary

 

general election is to be held on the first Thursday in May in the fifth

 

calendar year following that in which the previous ordinary general

 

election was held, unless provision is made for the day of the poll by an

 

order under section 4.”.’.

 


 

National Assembly for Wales: powers on election dates and elections

 

Jonathan Edwards

 

Not selected  NC2

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Government of Wales Act 2006 is amended as follows.

 

(2)    

In section 4(1) for “Secretary of State” insert “National Assembly for Wales”.

 

(3)    

Omit subsection (5).

 

(4)    

In section 5(1), for “Secretary of State” insert “National Assembly for Wales”.

 

(5)    

In section 5(4), for “Secretary of State” insert “National Assembly for Wales”.

 

(6)    

In section 13(1), for “Secretary of State” insert “National Assembly for Wales”.’.

 



 
 

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Fixed-term Parliaments Bill, continued

 
 

Application of Parliament Act 1911 to section 1

 

Jacob Rees-Mogg

 

Mr William Cash

 

Withdrawn  NC3

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Parliament Act 1911 is amended as follows.

 

(2)    

In section 2(1), after “five years”, there is inserted “or a Bill amending section 1

 

of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011”.’.

 


 

Prorogation of Parliament

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Negatived on division  NC4

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

Parliament can only be prorogued in accordance with this section.

 

(2)    

If the House of Commons resolves that Parliament should be prorogued,

 

Parliament shall be prorogued at that time, or by declaration of the Speaker.

 

(3)    

The Speaker of the House of Commons shall not make such a declaration unless

 

the House of Commons has passed a resolution directing him to do so on or before

 

a specified date and time.

 

(4)    

Where Parliament is prorogued under subsection (2) above, the Speaker may by

 

declaration prorogue it to an earlier or later day.

 

(5)    

The Prorogation Act 1867 is repealed.’.

 


 

Expiry and revival of section 2

 

Mr William Cash

 

Dr Julian Lewis

 

Mr Richard Shepherd

 

Mr Peter Bone

 

Mr Bernard Jenkin

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr David Nuttall

 

Mr Christopher Chope

 

Negatived on division  NC5

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

Section 2 expires when the Parliament summoned to meet in May 2010 dissolves.

 

(2)    

In the course of the first month of the day of first meeting of any Parliament after

 

the expiry of section 2 as a result of subsection (1) above, the Minister may by

 

order bring the section back into force for the remainder of that Parliament.


 
 

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Fixed-term Parliaments Bill, continued

 
 

(3)    

An order made under subsection (2) above is to be made by statutory instrument

 

and shall not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and

 

approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.

 

(4)    

If no order has been made under subsection (2) above, an early parliamentary

 

general election is to take place only if the House has passed a motion that there

 

should be an early parliamentary general election.

 

(5)    

The polling day for an early parliamentary general election under subsection (4)

 

above is to be the day appointed by Her Majesty by proclamation on the

 

recommendation of the Prime Minister.

 

(6)    

If a polling day is appointed under subsection (5) above, the reference in section

 

1(4) to the polling day for a parliamentary general election appointed under

 

section 2(6) shall be construed as if referring to a day appointed under subsection

 

(5) above.’.

 


 

Amendment to Scotland Act 1998

 

Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil

 

Not selected  NC6

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Scotland Act 1998 is amended as follows.

 

(2)    

In Section 2(5), omit “which is not more than one month earlier, nor more than

 

one month later, than the first Thursday in May”.’.

 


 

Northern Ireland Assembly elections

 

Mark Durkan

 

Not selected  NC7

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

If a Northern Ireland Assembly election is scheduled to take place on the same

 

day as a United Kingdom parliamentary general election, the date of the poll for

 

Northern Ireland Assembly election may be varied by up to six months before or

 

after the scheduled date, if the Northern Ireland Assembly passes a resolution to

 

that effect, and section 31(3) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 shall be read

 

accordingly.

 

(2)    

The Secretary of State shall by order make provision where the Northern Ireland

 

Assembly so resolves.’.

 



 
 

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Fixed-term Parliaments Bill, continued

 
 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Not selected  5

 

Page  1,  line  5  [Clause  1],  leave out ‘7 May 2015’ and insert ‘1 May 2014’.

 

Mr Graham Allen

 

Mrs Eleanor Laing

 

Withdrawn  1

 

Page  1,  line  5  [Clause  1],  at end insert ‘save as provided for by subsection (2A)

 

below.

 

(2A)    

If a day before 7 May 2015 has been appointed under section 2(6) as the polling

 

day for an early parliamentary general election, the polling day for the subsequent

 

parliamentary general election shall not be 7 May 2015, but shall instead be set

 

by reference to subsections (3) and (4) below.’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Not selected  6

 

Page  1,  line  7  [Clause  1],  leave out ‘fifth’ and insert ‘fourth’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Not called  10

 

Page  1,  line  8  [Clause  1],  at end insert ‘, no notice being taken of any early

 

parliamentary general election as provided for in section 2.’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Not called  11

 

Page  1,  line  9  [Clause  1],  leave out subsection (4).

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Not selected  7

 

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

 

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

 

Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil

 

Not selected  13

 

Page  1,  line  13  [Clause  1],  at end insert—

 

‘(4A)    

In Scotland, when a United Kingdom general election converges with a Scottish

 

general election, the Scottish Parliament will have the additional authority to

 

move the Scottish general election to avoid an electoral conflict.’.

 



 
 

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Fixed-term Parliaments Bill, continued

 
 

Mark Durkan

 

Not called  14

 

Page  2,  line  5  [Clause  2],  at end insert—

 

‘(aa)    

certifying whether or not the motion specified a polling day for such an

 

election, and if so, the day specified in that motion,’.

 

Mr William Cash

 

Dr Julian Lewis

 

Mr Richard Shepherd

 

Mr Peter Bone

 

Mr Bernard Jenkin

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr David Nuttall

 

Mr Christopher Chope

 

Not selected  12

 

Page  2,  line  18  [Clause  2],  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

From the day on which this Act is passed until the next parliamentary general

 

election thereafter, a motion passed by the House of Commons which declares

 

that a substantial breach has occurred in the coalition agreement entered into in

 

May 2010 by the leaders of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties shall

 

be treated as a motion of no confidence for the purposes of subsection (2)(a)

 

above.’.

 

Mark Durkan

 

Not called  15

 

Page  2,  line  24  [Clause  2],  after ‘be’, insert—

 

‘(a)    

the day specified in a motion as certified under subsection (1)(aa) above,

 

or, if no date is specified, (b)’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Negatived on division  8

 

Page  2,  line  29  [Clause  3],  leave out ‘17th’ and insert ‘25th’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Not called  9

 

Page  2,  line  39  [Clause  3],  at end insert ‘within 15 working days of the polling

 

day’.

 


 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Not called  2

 

Page  4,  line  4  [Schedule],  leave out ‘“or dissolve”’ and insert ‘“prorogue or dissolve

 

Parliaments nor”’.


 
 

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Fixed-term Parliaments Bill, continued

 
 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Not called  3

 

Page  4,  line  6  [Schedule],  at end insert—

 

‘Meeting of Parliament Act 1797 (c. 127)

 

2A         

The Meeting of Parliament Act 1797 is repealed.’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Not called  4

 

Page  4,  line  8  [Schedule],  leave out ‘“or dissolved” where it occurs second’ and insert

 

‘“unless it should be sooner prorogued or dissolved by the Crown, anything in the

 

Succession to the Crown Act 1707 in any way notwithstanding”.’.

 

Bill read the third time on division, and passed.

 


 
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