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  <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/016/06016.i-i.html"> Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill</a>
  
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  <p> The issue was to read the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/016/06016.i-i.html"> 
  Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill</a> a Second Time, which would move it to the next stage of the Parliamentary process.  </p>
  
  <p>This Bill is about abolishing the Royal Prerogative of the Prime Minister to declare war without the approval of Parliament.  It was officially supported by 221 MPs who signed the <a href="http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=28273&SESSION=875"> Early Day Motion 85 of 2005-05-17</a>.</p>  
  
  <p>However, during <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2005-10-21a.1085.0"> the debate</a>, the Bill was talked-out of session and rescheduled to continue on Friday 10 March 2006.  This vote was an attempt to force a closure on the debate (by moving that "The Question be now Put"), but it was lost because fewer than 100 members voted in favour of it.  </p>
  
  <p>For details of these rules, see <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/l02.pdf"> here</a>.  I can't find this rule listed anywhere in the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmstords.htm"> Standing Orders</a>.  </p>
  
  (DB: It's Standing Order 37 as would be obvious to anyone who knew anything about Parliamentary procedure)
  
  
  
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