Part of Adoption and Children Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:30 am on 17 January 2002.
Mr Hilton Dawson
Labour, Lancaster and Wyre
10:30,
17 January 2002
Does my hon. Friend agree that although we are sometimes frustrated by our own Government, that Intervention by the hon. Member for Huntingdon shows why the Conservative party is not fit to be in charge of public services?
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.
An intervention is when the MP making a speech is interrupted by another MP and asked to 'give way' to allow the other MP to intervene on the speech to ask a question or comment on what has just been said.
