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  Print Acts of Parliament on Paper instead of Vellum - rejected
  
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  The majority of MPs voted against discontinuing the practice of printing all Public Acts of Parliament in duplicate on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum vellum] (calf hide).
  
  This went against a vote in the House of Lords[1] as well as the recommendations of a Select Committee.[2]
  
  The campaign to retain the tradition (which he won) of continuing printing Acts of Parliament on animal skin was led by [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=Brian_White&mpc=North_East_Milton_Keynes Brian White] in whose constituency the vellum manufacturer was based.[3]  (He assured the House that it was calf-skin, not goat skin.)[4]
  
  * [1] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmhansrd/vo991101/debtext/91101-08.htm Nick Palmer MP], House of Commons, 1 November 1999 
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmselect/cmadmin/539/53905.htm Select Committee on Administration], Note by the Clerk of the House, 7 May 1999
  * [3] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/502342.stm 
  Goat skin tradition wins the day], BBC News, 2 November 1999
  * [4] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmhansrd/vo991101/debtext/91101-12.htm Brian White MP], House of Commons, 1 November 1999
  
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