Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Andrew George (Liberal Democrat), on Wednesday, 26 November 2014, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 58 members in total.

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GOVERNMENT PRACTICE IN TABLING MOTIONS FOR MONEY RESOLUTIONS

That this House notes that the Affordable Homes Bill, which seeks to combat the worst effects of the Government's under-occupancy penalty, also known as the bedroom tax, was approved by the House on Second Reading by a remarkable 306 to 231 votes on 5 September 2014; regrets, however, that Conservative Ministers have chosen to abuse the privilege of executive power by resorting to deploying a rarely-used underhand device of not tabling a motion for a Money Resolution for the Bill, in their attempt to sabotage it and thereby defy the clearly-expressed will of the House; further notes that the Deputy Prime Minister has made it clear that a motion for a Money Resolution will be tabled for the Conservatives' EU Referendum Bill once a Money Resolution is agreed to for the Affordable Homes Bill which precedes it; and therefore calls on the Government to table a motion for a Money Resolution to allow the Affordable Homes Bill to proceed beyond the Committee stage.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

558 

Session

2014-15

Other sponsors

Mark Durkan

Anne Begg

Mike Weir

David Ward

Grahame Morris

Subjects

Legislative process Parliamentary procedure

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk