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  Motion to sit in Private
  
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  <p>Eric Forth moved that the House sit in private, to ensure the early defeat of this motion and deny its use to anyone who wanted to disrupt the debate on a subsequent Private Members' Bill.</p>
  
  <p>Specifically, the move was targeted at the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmbills/021/05021.i-i.html"> Drugs (Sentencing and Commission of Inquiry) Bill</a> which was to be <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2005-02-25.554.0"> debated first</a> and which would have set up a Commission on the laws on Cannabis.</p>
  
  <p>See <a href="http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2005-10-28&number=72"> division 72</a> on 2005-10-28 for further details of this tactic</p>
  
  <p>As a House of Commons matter, no whips were applied on this division.</p>
  
  <p>(It's worth looking at the next three divisions that took place on the same day, all on private member's bills.  The turnout was extremely low and quorum was nowhere near being achieved on any of them.)</p>
  
  
  
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