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  Localism Bill - Schedule 2 - Power for Secretary of State to Impose Change to Mayor and Cabinet Executive
  
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  @ MP voted no for the Secretary of State to have the power to implement change a local council's system of governance to a mayor and cabinet executive. 
  @ MP voted aye against the Secretary of State having the power to implement change a local council's system of governance to a mayor and cabinet executive. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted for the Secretary of State to have the power to implement change a local council's system of governance to a mayor and cabinet executive. 
  
  MPs were considering the Localism Bill[1]; the text of amendment rejected in this vote was:
  :Amendment 41, page 211, line 18, leave out from beginning to end of line 31 on page 213.
  
  This would have deleted the clause 9N of a New Part 1A of the Local Government Act 2000 which Schedule 2 to the Localism Bill would have inserted[2]. The clause in question was titled "Power to implement change to mayor and cabinet executive" and gives the Secretary of State the power to order a council "starts to operate a mayor and cabinet executive"; the current leader of the council would become the "shadow mayor" until an election for mayor was held. 
  
  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/localism.html Parliament's webpage on the Localism Bill (now the Localism Act 2011)]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/161/11161.210-214.html Page of the Localism Bill as at the time of the vote containing clause 9N of a New Part 1A of the Local Government Act 2000 which Schedule 2 to the Localism Bill would have inserted]. 
  
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