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  Armed Conflict - Parliamentary Approval
  
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  <p>Those voting No rejected the motion before Parliament, which read:</p>
  
  <blockquote>This House supports the principle that parliamentary approval should be required for any substantial deployment of British Armed Forces into situations of war or international armed conflict; and, in the light of the <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/public_administration_select_committee/pasc_ministerial_prerogative.cfm">Fourth Report from the Public Administration Committee, Session 2003-04, 'Taming the Prerogative: Strengthening Ministerial Accountability to Parliament', HC 422</a>, and the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200607/ldselect/ldconst/51/5102.htm">Fifteenth Report of the House of Lords Constitution Committee, Session 2005-06, 'Waging War: Parliament&quot;s role and responsibility', HL 236</a>, calls on the Government to bring forward proposals to give effect to this principle, including mechanisms to ensure that the capability to react rapidly in emergencies is maintained.</blockquote>
  
  <p>As a result it was replaced with the new motion:</p>
  
  <blockquote>This House welcomes the precedents set by the Government in 2002 and 2003 in seeking and obtaining the approval of the House for its decisions in respect of military action against Iraq; is of the view that it is inconceivable that any Government would in practice depart from this precedent; taking note of the reports of the Public Administration Select Committee, HC 422 of Session 2003-04, and of the Lords Committee on the Constitution, HL 236 of Session 2005-06, believes that the time has come for Parliament's role to be made more explicit in approving, or otherwise, decisions of the Government relating to the major, or substantial, deployment of British forces overseas into actual, or potential, armed conflict; recognises the imperative to take full account of the paramount need not to compromise the security of British forces nor the operational discretion of those in command, including in respect of emergencies and regrets that insufficient weight has been given to this in some quarters; and calls upon the Government, after consultation, to come forward with more detailed proposals for Parliament to consider.</blockquote>
  
  <p>which passed automatically</p>
  
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