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  Business of the House - Standing Orders on Carrying Over Bills to a New Parliament
  
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  The majority of MPs voted in favour of changes to the House of Commons standing orders relating to the carrying over of certain Bills to a new Parliament. 
  
  Each Parliamentary session runs from a state opening of Parliament until a prorogation[1]; Bills under consideration at prorogation are dropped unless a specific motion to carry them over to the next session has been passed. 
  
  The amendments to the standing orders contained within the approved motion[2] made the existing procedures for carrying over a Bill to a subsequent session of Parliament cease to apply to ways and means resolutions.
  
  Ways and means resolutions are the means by which the financial measures contained within the Budget are brought in[3]. 
  
  
  * [1] [http://www.parliament.uk/site-information/glossary/prorogation/ Parliament's Glossary entry for Prorogation]
  * [2] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2011-12-14a.811.0#g811.1 House of Commons 14 December 2011]
  * [3] [http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/parliamentwork/offices-and-ceremonies/overview/chairman-waysmeans/ Parliament's webpage on the The Chairman of Ways and Means/Deputy Speakers]
  * [4] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmstords/539/body.htm#80A House of Commons standing order 80A (Carry-over of bills) as at the time of the vote.
  
  
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