Part of Finance Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:45 pm on 13 June 2013.
Brooks Newmark
Conservative, Braintree
12:45,
13 June 2013
I am sure that the hon. Gentleman was at the Budget, like the rest of us. There were tax cuts for the lowest paid, which brought roughly £700 extra to about 24 million individuals and took more than 2 million of the lowest paid out of tax altogether.
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.
