division_name: Backbench Business &#8212; Council of Europe
motion: <p class="" pid="a.408.3/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.408.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House adopts with immediate effect the same system for nomination of its membership of the UK Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as it has for nomination, following party elections, of membership of departmental select committees, and accordingly directs the Speaker not to send the names of its membership of the UK delegation to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly until the nomination of that membership has taken place according to that system.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.414.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move manuscript amendment (b), leave out from &#8220;adopts&#8221; to end and add</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.414.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;henceforth a system for nomination of its membership of the UK Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe following a General Election reflecting that for nomination of membership of departmental select committees, namely that the House of Commons names be communicated to the Speaker following party elections involving a secret ballot (with each party to seek to reflect in its nominations the same gender representation as in its parliamentary membership, in order to comply with the rules of the Assembly), and for such names to be sent as now by the Speaker to the President of the Assembly; requires that the revised system be implemented in time for the delegation thus nominated to be able to attend the January 2016 part session of the Parliamentary Assembly; and in the interim authorises the Speaker to send now the names of the delegation as set out in the Written Statement of <phrase class="date" code="2015-11-03">3 November</phrase> to the President of the Assembly in order to permit UK participation in the Assembly until then.&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.425.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put, </i>That the amendment be made.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.425.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="a.425.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 34, Noes 171.</p>