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  Government Spending (Website) Bill - Quorum not attained
  
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  The Bill before the House would have required the Treasury to create a freely accessible website containing information about expenditure by all Government departments and executive agencies to be updated within 30 days of the date the expenditure was incurred.[1]
  
  This Bill is identical in purpose to a law that was passed in the United States in 2006.[2]
  
  The Bill had originally been introduced into the House of Lords[3] and moved on without a debate.[4]
  
  This vote in the House of Commons did not reach the quorate of 40.  Since the "usual channels" chose not to reschedule a debate, no further action was taken.
  
  Earlier in the day there was a House do Sit in private motion in which 40 MPs did vote,[5] and one Bill that was passed on to the next stage unopposed (without a vote),[6] and another which was also lost due to lack of quorum,[7] proving that the outcome was determined by a combination of scheduling (which is off the record), the decision of whether or not to hold a vote (not apparent from the record), and the lack of attendance by the MPs in the chamber even though there was enough there earlier on in the day.  Other than that, the Bill would have succeeded because a majority voted for it.
  	
  * [1] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmbills/081/07081.i-i.html Government Spending (Website) Bill], House of Commons, 2006-07
  * [2] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Funding_Accountability_and_Transparency_Act_of_2006 Federal Funding Accoundability and Transparency Act 2006].
  * [3] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2007-01-26b.1393.1 Government Spending (Website) Bill], House of Lords, 26 January 2007.
  * [4] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2007-03-13b.571.115 Government Spending (Website) Bill], House of Lords, 13 March 2007.
  * [5] [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2007-06-29&number=167 Division 167], House of Commons, 29 June 2007.
  * [6] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2007-06-29c.574.1 Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill], House of Commons, 29 June 2007
  * [7] [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2007-06-29&number=168 Division 169], House of Commons, 29 June 2007
  
  
  
  
  
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