division_name: Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill: Committee Stage
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b252.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That, notwithstanding the provisions of <phrase class="standing-order" code="48">Standing Order No. 48</phrase> and the practice of the House relating to the authorisation of charges upon the public revenue, the Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill Committee has leave to consider the Clauses of the Bill and any new Clauses that may be proposed to it; but the Bill may not be reported from the Committee before this House has passed a Money Resolution, for which the Queen&#8217;s Recommendation has been signified, in relation to the Bill.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b256.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;that the Government be required to make a written Ministerial statement on the reasons for the delay if a money or ways and means resolution, where required, has not been put to the House within three weeks of a bill being given a second reading.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b256.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It is the responsibility of the Member in charge of the bill to make a request to Government to table any money or ways and means motions that may be required. It is the practice of the Government to accede to such requests&#8230; The Committee has not produced any clear evidence to suggest that current arrangements are not working or that a new rule is needed.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b258.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;it is unusual but not unprecedented for the Government not to move a money resolution. There have been previous instances of that under Governments of different parties.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2018-10-30">30 October</phrase> 2014; Vol. 587, c. 417.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b258.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It was a central factor in the historical development of parliamentary influence and power that the Sovereign was obliged to obtain the consent of Parliament&#8230;to the levying of taxes to meet the expenditure of the State. But the role of Parliament in respect of&#8230;expenditure and taxation has never been one of initiation&#8230; The development of responsible government and the assumption by the Government of the day of the traditional role and powers of the Crown in relation to public finance have not altered this basic constitutional principle&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b259.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;any financial provisions which&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b259.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;may contain must be authorised by a resolution of the House, i.e. a money resolution, before they can be considered by the committee on the bill.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b272.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;once the House has given a private Member&#8217;s Bill a Second Reading, the convention is that the Government, even when they robustly oppose it, always table a money resolution&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2018-11-03">3 November</phrase> 2015; Vol. 601, c. 926.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b277.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Government policy is not to refuse a money or ways and means resolution to a bill which has passed second reading.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b280.4/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, &#8216;I don&#8217;t see the use of this; let us clear it away.&#8217; To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: &#8216;If you don&#8217;t see the use of it&#8230;Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b280.4/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I should point out, in fairness and for accuracy, so that no one is misled, that the rule about a single objection applies similarly to any other business before the House after the moment of interruption. &#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2018-06-18">18 June</phrase> 2018; Vol. 643, c. 50.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b282.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;To my knowledge, Government has provided the money resolutions&#8230;whenever we have been asked to do so.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b282.2/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Government policy is not to refuse a money or ways and means resolution to a bill which has passed second reading.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b284.4/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;disenfranchise Members who may wish to support a bill being promoted by a colleague and are misleading to the public and to the interest groups who seek to use it to advance legislative change&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b286.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b290.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;real concern&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b290.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;plucked from thin air&#8212;600 simply being a neat number.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b297.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b297.2/6" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 284, Noes 299.</p>