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  Fixed Term Parliaments Bill - Clause 2 - Period Following Vote of No Confidence in the Government
  
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  @ MP voted aye to exclude certain days from the period of 14 days to be allowed following a vote of no confidence in the Government to see if a Government can secure the confidence of MPs and remove the requirement for an early general election. 
  
  @ MP voted no against excluding certain days from the period of 14 days to be allowed following a vote of no confidence in the Government to see if a Government can secure the confidence of MPs and remove the requirement for an early general election. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted against excluding time Parliament is prorogued or adjourned for more than 4 days, from the period of 14 days to be allowed following a vote of no confidence in the Government to see if a Government can secure the confidence of MPs. If no Government secures the confidence of MPs within the time period a general election would be called. 
  
  MPs were considering the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill[1]. The amendment rejected in this vote was[2]:
  
  :Amendment 36, page 2, line 14, at end insert-
  :'(2A) In reckoning for the purposes of subsection 2(b), no account shall be taken of any time during which Parliament is prorogued or during which the House of Commons is adjourned for more than four days.'.
  
  Clause 2 of the Bill at the time of the vote[3] stated:
  
  :An early parliamentary general election is also to take place if the Speaker of the House of Commons issues a certificate certifying thatâ
  	
  :(a) on a specified day the House passed a motion of no confidence in Her Majestyâs Government (as then constituted), and
  :(b)  the period of 14 days after the specified day has ended without the House passing any motion expressing confidence in any Government of Her Majesty.
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/fixedtermparliaments.html Fixed Term Parliament's Bill (now an act) page on Parliament's website] 
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/064/amend/pbc0640112m.1233-1239.html Amendment sheet for consideration of the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill on 1 December 2010]
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/064/11064.1-7.html#Extraordinary%20elections%20reset%20version Clause 2 of the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill at the time of the vote]
  
  
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