Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Maria Fyfe (Labour), on Tuesday, 25 July 2000, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 64 members in total.
ELECTION OF SPEAKER
That this House is pleased to note that several worthy candidates' names are being considered by honourable and Right honourable Members for election as Speaker; believing it should have the greatest possible freedom of choice of Speaker, disagrees with the opinion of the then Select Committee on Procedure in 1996 that no change was needed to the voting system; further believes that the fairest system would be an eliminatory ballot; and is confident that it is easily within the competence of the current Select Committee to bring forward proposals for such a system which would avoid the over-lengthy procedures described in its predecessor's 1996 Report, especially when other legislatures have already done so.
Secondary information
- Type
- Early day motion
- Reference
- 1021
- Session
- 1999-00
- Other sponsors
- David Davis
- Alice Mahon
- Jim Cunningham
- Margaret Ewing
- Lord Wallace of Tankerness
- Subjects
- Elections House of Commons Parliamentary procedure Speaker
- Link
- View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk
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- Timestamp
- 2014-09-04 17:41:42 +0100
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