Part of Finance (No. 2) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 11:30 am on 11 January 2018.
Mel Stride
Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General
11:30,
11 January 2018
I thank the hon. Lady for those comments and for not pressing the Amendment to a vote. I shall certainly keep the matters under review, as she urged, and would be happy of course to take directly any representations that she may want to make on them in future.
As a bill passes through Parliament, MPs and peers may suggest amendments - or changes - which they believe will improve the quality of the legislation.
Many hundreds of amendments are proposed by members to major bills as they pass through committee stage, report stage and third reading in both Houses of Parliament.
In the end only a handful of amendments will be incorporated into any bill.
The Speaker - or the chairman in the case of standing committees - has the power to select which amendments should be debated.
