division_name: Adjournment (November and Christmas) &#8212; Business of the House (Private Members&#8217; Bills)
motion: <p class="indent" pid="e636.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That Private Members&#8217; Bills shall have precedence over Government business on <phrase class="date" code="2017-10-20">20 October</phrase>, <phrase class="date" code="2017-11-03">3 November</phrase>, <phrase class="date" code="2017-12-01">1 December</phrase> 2017, <phrase class="date" code="2017-01-19">19 January</phrase>, 2 and <phrase class="date" code="2017-02-23">23 February</phrase>, <phrase class="date" code="2017-03-16">16 March</phrase>, <phrase class="date" code="2017-04-27">27 April</phrase>, <phrase class="date" code="2017-05-11">11 May</phrase>, <phrase class="date" code="2017-06-15">15 June</phrase>, <phrase class="date" code="2017-07-06">6 July</phrase>, <phrase class="date" code="2017-10-26">26 October</phrase> and <phrase class="date" code="2017-11-23">23 November</phrase> 2018.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e636.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8216;, subject to the House agreeing before Thursday <phrase class="date" code="2017-09-13">13 September</phrase> 2017 to a Motion providing for an additional 13 sitting Fridays for Private Members&#8217; Bills together with the necessary adjustments to <phrase class="standing-order" code="14">Standing Order No.14</phrase>,&#8217;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e648.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;This reflects the increasing importance which Private Members&#8217; Bills have assumed in the last year or two; and I am pleased to see from the reports so far published about the subjects likely to be selected by Members successful in this year&#8217;s Ballot that hon. Members are still prepared to come forward with bold proposals for the solution of social problems of the day.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2017-11-14">14 November</phrase> 1967; Vol. 754, c. 259.]</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="e649.0/10" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="e649.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 285, Noes 315.</p>