Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Government Departments – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 18 March 1947.
61 and 62. To ask (1) the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if, with reference to the expression "all other powers enabling." contained in the Inland Post Amendment (No. 7) Warrant, S.R. & O., 1946, No. 2118, he will identify the powers and explain why the said powers were not specified in the warrant;
As a bill passes through Parliament, MPs and peers may suggest amendments - or changes - which they believe will improve the quality of the legislation.
Many hundreds of amendments are proposed by members to major bills as they pass through committee stage, report stage and third reading in both Houses of Parliament.
In the end only a handful of amendments will be incorporated into any bill.
The Speaker - or the chairman in the case of standing committees - has the power to select which amendments should be debated.
