division_name: The Chairman of Ways and Means took the Chair as Deputy Speaker (Standing Order No. 3) &#8212; European Union (Referendum) Bill
motion: <p class="" pid="a.565.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.565.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">This Bill is about choice. It is about giving the British people a choice on something that is fundamental to our constitutional arrangements and fundamental to our future. It is a straightforward and simple Bill, because the proposition of choice and democratic fairness for our people is a simple one that everyone here should be able to grasp. It is not a Bill about the future of our relationship with the European Union, and it is not a Bill about whether we should, in the long term, stay or leave the European Union. As I say, it is about giving the people of this country a choice, which is no laughing matter. That choice is important because the future of our arrangements with our neighbours require legitimacy and consent. It is some 40 years since that consent was last sought. Much has changed since, and it is fair and reasonable for people to be given that choice again.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.629.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put accordingly:</i> That the Bill be now read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.629.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>The House divided:</i> Ayes 283, Noes 0.</p>