– in a Public Bill Committee at on 30 November 2006.
Anne McGuire
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
9:10,
30 November 2006
On a point of order, Mr. Hood, would you allow me an opportunity to correct the Official Report? The record shows that I told the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey that, since its introduction, the two strikes measure has been applicable to 320 cases a year, of which 190 have had the sanction applied. I now wish to make it clear that 320 is the total number of cases to which the measure has been applied since the legislation commenced in April 2002 and that the sanction was applied in 190 cases.
Jimmy Hood
Labour, Lanark and Hamilton East
That was not a point of order; it was a point of information, but thank you.
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.
