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  Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill - European Union (Amendment) Bill - [12th Allotted Day]
  
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  <p>The Aye-voters successfully carried the motion for the <a href="http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2007-08/europeanunionamendment.html">European Union (Amendment) Bill</a> to be given its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_reading">Third Reading</a>. This is a crucial stage in the passage of a Bill through the Commons as it is when approval is given to all amendments and to the Bill itself. After this stage, the Bill can be presented to the Lords. It was noted that since the Bill's <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/glossary/?gl=24">Second Reading</a>: 
  
  <p pid="c.152.2/2">nine weeks ago, six Secretaries of State and shadow Secretaries of State have spoken to the House. The scrutiny process in Committee has totalled some 560,000 words-five and a half times the length of the consolidated treaty itself.</p>
  
  <p pid="c.250.2/1"><i> The House having divided:</i> Ayes 346, Noes 206.</p>
  
  
  
  
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