Part of Enterprise Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 11:30 am on 7 May 2002.
Miss Melanie Johnson
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry
11:30,
7 May 2002
No. However, given the interest that has been shown in the matter, I still undertake to write to members of the Committee about it.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 139 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clauses 140 and 141 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
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.
