division_name: Education &#8212; Constitution and Home Affairs
motion: <p class="" pid="e.25.4/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move an amendment, at the end of the Question to add:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e.25.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">"but, whilst welcoming the progress made by the previous administration to reform and improve the constitutional arrangements of the United Kingdom, respectfully believe that such changes should be made wherever possible on the basis of a strong cross-party consensus; therefore call for active discussions by your Government on proposals for an elected House of Lords, a referendum on the alternative vote, recall of hon. Members, the period of any fixed-term Parliament, party funding, changes to the number of hon. Members, the drawing of electoral boundaries, and individual voter registration; consider as wholly unacceptable and undemocratic proposals to require any special majority to remove a Government and require an early general election, or to alter the number of hon. Members or the boundary rules in an arbitrary and partisan way; strongly endorse the measures which led to an overall reduction in crime of over a third, and of violent crime of 41 per cent., since 1997; oppose any measures to cut the number of police officers and police community support officers, to restrict the use of the DNA database in accordance with the Crime and Security Act 2010, to extend anonymity in rape cases to defendants, or to politicise constabularies through the introduction of elected commissioners; and urge your Government to reconsider the introduction of a pre-determined cap on skilled immigrants and to maintain the flexibility and effectiveness of the current points-based system."</p>
  
  <p pid="e.130.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> Question put accordingly, </i>That the amendment be made.</p>
  
  <p pid="e.130.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> The House divided:</i> Ayes 251, Noes 347.</p>