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  Business of the House - Backbench Business Committee
  
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  The majority of MPs voted against making the Backbench Business Committee larger than the Government had proposed. 
  
  The amendment, which was rejected, proposed making it so the committee would comprise a chair and fifteen members of whom eight would comprise a quorum.  The original motion stated:
  "The committee shall consist of a chair and seven other Members, of whom four shall be a quorum." 
  
  The purpose of the Backbench Business Committee is "to determine the backbench business to be taken in the House and in Westminster Hall  on days, or parts of days, allotted for backbench business."
  
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