division_name: BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LISBON TREATY) (No. 6) &#8212; Treaty of Lisbon (No. 7)
motion: <p class="" pid="b.926.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b.926.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House approves the Government's policy towards the Treaty of Lisbon in respect of provisions concerning the effectiveness of the EU institutions and EU decision-making.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.926.4/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move <phrase class="standing-order" code="29">Standing Order No. 29</phrase>.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.942.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move amendment (b), in line 1, leave out from 'House' to end and add</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b.942.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">"disapproves of the Government's policy towards the Treaty of Lisbon in respect of the provisions on the effectiveness of European Union institutions and decision-making because the Treaty expands the power of EU institutions at Member States' expense by replacing the rotating presidency of the European Council with a permanent President, giving the EU a single legal personality, abolishing national vetoes in more than fifty areas and entrenching marine biological resources as an exclusive EU competence; notes that these provisions are largely identical to those in the original EU Constitution; further notes that the details of many of the new powers of the EU and its institutions will not be decided until after the Treaty is ratified; and regrets the Government's failure to secure the extensive changes Ministers sought to these provisions in the course of negotiations on this Treaty and its near-identical predecessor.".</p>
  
  <p pid="b.977.4/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> Question put, </i>That the amendment be made:&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="b.977.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> The House divided:</i> Ayes 170, Noes 299.</p>