Part of Adoption and Children Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 9:45 am on 17 January 2002.
Jonathan Djanogly
Conservative, Huntingdon
9:45,
17 January 2002
The important point is that, provided the local authority has been as diligent as it should, experience should show that someone who has been a
foster parent for 10 or 20 years is a good foster parent. The average length of time for which foster parents care for particular children is short, so an experienced foster parent will very likely have cared for a large number—
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.
