ITISH NATIONALITY BILL
SUPPLEMENTARY ALLOCATION OF TIME MOTION
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7 OCTOBER 1981
DRAFT SPEECH BY MR RAISON_
Mr Speaker, I beg to move the Order that stands in/my_7 name on the Order Paper.
2. This Order supplements that agreed by this House on 29 April and provides a
timetable for this House's consideration of amendments made in another place, and
for debate on any further message from another place. In the arrangement of the
proceedings for consideration of amendments made in another place, we have sought
to meet the wishes of the House and the Opposition and to ensure that the House can
concentrate debate on those amendments which are agreed to be of particular
significance.
We have been concerned that the time available for discussion should
be used in the most effective way possible and I hope that the House will consider
this motion in that light.
3. Other provisions in the Order will ensure that subsequent exchanges on the Bill
with another place will be conducted expeditiously, so that the Bill can go through
its final stages smoothly.
4. Mr Speaker, we are always reluctant to curtail debate in this House. But it is
obviously necessary in this case. The Government has followed the same constructive
approach to the Bill in another place as it adopted here. We have been ready to
respond to well founded criticisms and to meet particular concerns wherever it seemed
right and proper to do so. But this has meant that there are considerable numbers of
Government amendments agreed by another place which now await the consideration of
the House. Many of these are technical and consequential but some affect the Bill
significantly.
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