division_name: Convention on the Future of Europe
motion: <p class="" pid=".1201.3/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid=".1201.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House believes that the draft Constitutional Treaty produced by the Convention on the Future of Europe is a good basis for starting in the Intergovernmental Conference; agrees that the procedures of an enlarged European Union require reform, and welcomes the commitment of the Convention to a Union which respects the national identities of its Member States and which has only those powers explicitly conferred on it by them; congratulates the UK parliamentary, government and European Parliament representatives on the Convention for their contributions, and notes the valuable work of the relevant parliamentary committees of both Houses; notes the Government's decision to table as a Command Paper Parts I, II and IV; recalls that decisions on what is included in any forthcoming Treaty will be made by unanimity by the elected governments of all EU member states; and reaffirms Parliament's role in scrutinising and approving legislation required to give effect to any future Treaty's provisions.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid=".1213.0/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move amendment (b), in line 1, leave out from 'House' to end and add 'notes the draft Constitutional Treaty produced by the Convention on the Future of Europe; and believes that no constitutional European Treaty agreed by the Intergovernmental Conference should be ratified without a referendum.'.,</p>
  
  <p class="" pid=".1213.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">standing in my name, the name of the Leader of the Opposition and the names of my right hon. Friends.</p>
  
  <p pid=".1271.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put,</i> That the amendment be made:&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid=".1271.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>The House divided:</i> Ayes 205, Noes 315.</p>