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  Points of Order - Modernisation of the House of Commons
  
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  The House passed, without a division, a motion on modernisation issues, including provision for topical debates at short notice:
  
  <blockquote>That this House welcomes the First Report of the <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/select_committee_on_modernisation_of_the_house_of_commons.cfm">Select Committee on Modernisation</a> of the House of Commons on <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmmodern/337/337.pdf">Revitalising the Chamber: the role of the back bench Member</a> (House of Commons Paper No. 337) and approves the proposals for changes in the procedures and practices of the House set out in the Government's response to the report (Cm. 7231), including the proposals for topical questions.</blockquote>
  
  The division rejected <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2007-10-25b.500.1">an amendment</a> to this motion, which would have added:
  
  <blockquote>but excluding the proposed acceptance of the Committee's recommendation 35, as set out in paragraph 31 of the Government's response, that the use of handheld devices to keep up to date with emails should be permitted in the Chamber.</blockquote>
  
  
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