First Reading: High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill (Carry-over)
Motion made and question proposed
That the following provisions shall apply in respect of the High  Speed Rail (Crewe – Manchester) Bill:
(1) Further proceedings on the Bill shall be suspended from the day on which this Session of Parliament ends until the next Session of Parliament.
(2) If a Bill is presented in the next Session in the same terms as the Bill when it was presented in this Session–
(a) the Bill so presented shall be ordered to be printed and shall be deemed to have been read the first time; and
(b) the Standing Orders and practice of the House applicable to the Bill, so far as complied with or dispensed with in this Session, shall be deemed to have been complied with or (as the case may be) dispensed with in the next Session.
That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.—(Andrew Stephenson.)