Part of Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:15 pm on 4 July 2023.
Maria Miller
Conservative, Basingstoke
2:15,
4 July 2023
Is this an Intervention or a further speech?
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.
