division_name: Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill (Instruction)
motion: <p class="indent" pid="c704.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That it be an Instruction to the Committee on the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill, That the Committee have leave to make provision relating to the prorogation of Parliament.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c704.3/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a rigmarole&#8230;to show&#8230;MPs are earning their crust&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c704.3/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The prorogation itself takes place in the House of Lords and in the presence of Members of both Houses. But it cannot sensibly be described as a &#8216;proceeding in Parliament&#8217;. It is not a decision of either House of Parliament. Quite the contrary: it is something which is imposed upon them from outside. It is not something upon which the Members of Parliament can speak or vote.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c707.5/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A decision to prorogue Parliament (or to advise the monarch to prorogue Parliament) will be unlawful if the prorogation has the effect of frustrating or preventing, without reasonable justification, the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions as a legislature and as the body responsible for the supervision of the executive. In such a situation the court will intervene if the effect is sufficiently serious to justify such an exceptional course.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c710.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;no read across from prorogation and dissolution&#8221;,</p>