Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 13 March 1929.
Mr Wilfred Wellock
, Stourbridge
Is it the intention of the Department to pass on a debt of £40,000,000 on the Fund to the next Government? Could not the matter be dealt with by inserting a Clause in the revised Unemployment Insurance Bill?
A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
