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  Business of the House - Backbench Business Committee
  
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  The majority of MPs voted against amending a motion establishing the Backbench Business Committee the amendment sought to ensure the committee would comprise a chair and fifteen members of whom eight would comprise a quorum. 
  
  As this amendment was voted down the proposed composition of the committee remained as in the original motion which stated:
  "The committee shall consist of a chair and seven other Members, of whom four shall be a quorum." 
  
  The purpose of the Backbench Business Committee is "to determine the backbench business to be taken in the House and in Westminster Hall  on days, or parts of days, allotted for backbench business."
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