Part of Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 9:30 am on 9 March 2010.
David Gauke
Shadow Minister (Treasury)
9:30,
9 March 2010
I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury for that Intervention. I will not try your patience, Mr. Chope. As I said earlier, I wanted to deal with the questions that arise from this provision, but perhaps it would be more appropriate to do so in the stand part debate.
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.
