Private Members’ Bills: Money Resolutions Debate

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Department: Leader of the House

Private Members’ Bills: Money Resolutions

Judith Cummins Excerpts
Thursday 10th May 2018

(6 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Andrea Leadsom Portrait Andrea Leadsom
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I think people will be delighted at the progress being made in some very important private Members’ Bills, including Bills to prevent assaults on emergency workers, to provide better support for parents who have been bereaved and to provide better support for those who have mental health problems and are taken into secure units.

Judith Cummins Portrait Judith Cummins (Bradford South) (Lab)
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Does the Leader of the House not understand just how offensive it is to Members of this House that the Government are using a procedural device to block debate on this important Bill?

Andrea Leadsom Portrait Andrea Leadsom
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I say to the hon. Lady, as I have to plenty of hon. Members now, there is no blocking. The Government bring forward money resolutions on a case-by-case basis. I have sought very courteously to explain why, on this occasion, money resolutions on other private Members’ Bills are coming forward and this one is not at the moment.