division_name: Government of Wales Bill
motion: <p class="" pid="b.22.3/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.22.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">May I express the House's condolences to the family of Lord Merlyn-Rees, who sadly died recently? He was a proud Welshman and perhaps one of the leading Welsh parliamentarians of his generation. The House remembers him with great affection.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.45.0/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b.45.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">"That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Government of Wales Bill because there has been inadequate consultation about the electoral arrangements proposed in the Bill; and because the Bill fails to provide for a referendum on the introduction of the Orders in Council mechanisms for conferring enhanced legislative powers on the National Assembly for Wales."</p>
  
  <p pid="b.122.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put,</i> That the amendment be made:&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="b.122.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>The House divided:</i> Ayes 161, Noes 341.</p>