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  Business of the House - Standing Orders on Carrying Over Bills to a New Parliament
  
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  The majority of MPs voted in favour of changes to the House of Commons standing orders relating to the carrying over of certain Bills to a new Parliament. 
  
  The amendments to the standing orders contained within the approved motion[1] made the existing procedures for carrying over a Bill to a subsequent session of Parliament cease to apply to ways and means resolutions.
  
  
  Each Parliamentary session runs from a state opening of Parliament until a prorogation[2]; Bills under consideration at prorogation are dropped unless a specific motion to carry them over to the next session has been passed. 
  
  
  * [1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2011-12-14a.811.0#g811.1 House of Commons 14 December 2011]
  * [2] [http://www.parliament.uk/site-information/glossary/prorogation/ Parliament's Glossary entry for Prorogation]
  
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