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  Government Spending (Website) Bill - Quorum not attained
  
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  <p>The Bill before the House would have required the Treasury to create a freely accessible website containing information about expenditure by all Government departments and executive agencies to be updated within 30 days of the date the expenditure was incurred.[1]</p>
  
  <p>This Bill is identical in purpose to a law that was passed in the United States two years before.[2]</p>
  
  <p>The Bill had earlier been introduced into the House of Lords[3] and moved on without a debate.[4]</p>
  
  <p>This vote in the House of Commons did not reach the quorate of 40.  Since the "usual channels" chose not to reschedule a debate, no further action was taken.</p>
  	
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  <li>[1] <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmbills/081/07081.i-i.html">Government Spending (Website) Bill</a>, House of Commons, 2006-07</li>
  <li>[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Funding_Accountability_and_Transparency_Act_of_2006">Federal Funding Accoundability and Transparency Act 2006</a>.</li>
  <li>[3] <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2007-01-26b.1393.1">Government Spending (Website) Bill [HL]</a>, House of Lords, 26 January 2007.</li>
  <li>[4] <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2007-03-13b.571.115">Government Spending (Website) Bill [HL]</a>, House of Lords, 13 March 2007.</li>
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