Part of Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:30 pm on 13 January 2005.
Caroline Flint
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
4:30,
13 January 2005
Let me reassure the hon. Gentleman. Incidentally, there was a fur farm in my Constituency. I am not in favour of fur farming, but I do not think that the example given by the hon. Gentleman would be on any order that we dealt with.
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.
In a general election, each Constituency chooses an MP to represent them. MPs have a responsibility to represnt the views of the Constituency in the House of Commons. There are 650 Constituencies, and thus 650 MPs. A citizen of a Constituency is known as a Constituent
