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Mr Thomas Williams
, Don Valley
I hope that every hon. Member in the House will now be perfectly clear on that point. I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that I am. I understand now that the Amendment is moved to-day? If ultimately the Board are determining the quantities of bacon to be sold, they have to prescribe a method of determining the limitation, so that it is not so much the quantities with which we are dealing, as the method of prescribing the quantity.
As a bill passes through Parliament, MPs and peers may suggest amendments - or changes - which they believe will improve the quality of the legislation.
Many hundreds of amendments are proposed by members to major bills as they pass through committee stage, report stage and third reading in both Houses of Parliament.
In the end only a handful of amendments will be incorporated into any bill.
The Speaker - or the chairman in the case of standing committees - has the power to select which amendments should be debated.
