Part of Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill – in the House of Commons at 7:00 pm on 15 April 2024.
Stephen Kinnock
Shadow Minister (Home Office) (Immigration)
7:00,
15 April 2024
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I always enjoy taking interventions from a fellow Welshman, but I feel that Sir Robert Buckland was well and truly put in his place by your riposte.
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.
Of a male MP, sitting on his regular seat in the House. For females, "in her place".
The Deputy speaker is in charge of proceedings of the House of Commons in the absence of the Speaker.
The deputy speaker's formal title is Chairman of Ways and Means, one of whose functions is to preside over the House of Commons when it is in a Committee of the Whole House.
The deputy speaker also presides over the Budget.
