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  Standing Orders - Trial Period for Veto for MPs from England, Wales and Northern Ireland Over Laws Affecting Just Their Areas
  
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  @ MP voted aye to give the MPs from England, Wales and Northern Ireland a veto over laws impacting just their areas only for a trial period.
  @ MP voted no against giving the MPs from England, Wales and Northern Ireland a veto over laws impacting just their areas only for a trial period.
  
  The majority of MPs voted against giving the MPs from England, Wales and Northern Ireland a veto over laws impacting just their areas only for a trial period for the remainder of the Parliamentary session. (Expected to be until May 2016) 
  
  MPs were considering a motion proposing a number of new, and amended, Standing Orders for the House of Commons designed to give the MPs from England, Wales and Northern Ireland a veto when laws specifically impacting one or more of those parts of the United Kingdom are before the House of Commons.
  
  Under the proposed Standing Orders a majority of MPs from the affected areas would need to consent to a relevant bill or amendment before it could put to a House of Commons vote; and a motion put to the whole house would not be considered agreed unless the majority of MPs from qualifying constituencies agreed to it.
  
  The motion under consideration[1] began:
  
  :That
  :(1) The following new Standing Orders and changes to Standing Orders be made: .... 
  
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  
  :Amendment (e), in paragraph (1), leave out âbe madeâ and insert
  :âshall have effect for the remainder of this Session of Parliamentâ
  
  Explaining the rejected amendment Chris Bryant MP said[2]: 
  
  :I am very grateful for all the things the Leader of the House has said about the idea that this should be a pilot that we should engage in for a period and then review. We tabled amendment (e), which would mean that the changes to Standing Orders would be in place until the end of the parliamentary Sessionâthat is to say, until next May. That seems perfectly in line with what the Procedure Committee said. It would provide the opportunity, as the Leader of the House has just said, to review the operation of four or five Bills and several statutory instruments
  
  
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  * [1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2015-10-22b.1159.0#g1159.3 Motion on new Standing Orders and amendments, Chris Grayling MP, Official Record, House of Commons, 22 October 2015]
  * [2] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2015-10-22b.1159.0#g1179.0 Chris Bryant MP, Official Record, House of Commons, 22 October 2015]
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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