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  Motion to sit in private
  
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  <p>Eric Forth moved "That the House sit in private", in accordance to <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmstords/416/41605.htm#a183"> Standing Order No. 163</a>, which says: 
  
  <p class="indent">If at any sitting of the House... any Member moves 'That the House sit in private' the Speaker... shall forthwith put the question 'That the House sit in private', and such question, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business, but such a Motion may be made no more than once in any sitting.</p>
  
  <p>This was a procedural tactic. By ensuring the defeat of a motion to sit in private at the beginning of the sitting, Forth made it impossible for any member to move the motion during a subsequent debate: Members have increasingly done this in an attempt to force an arbitrary division in which the quorum of 40 MPs is not met, which results in the end of debate on the Bill in question.</p> 
  
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