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  Parliamentary Standards Bill - Clause 5 - MPs' financial interests rules
  
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  This was a division of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_the_Whole#United_Kingdom">committee of the whole house</a>.  
  
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  The majority of MPs voted against a series of amendments to the Parliamentary Standards Bill. Among other things the proposed amendments would have resulted in there being a "code" rather than "rules" relating to MPs' financial interests.
  
  
  
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