Part of Adoption and Children Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 9:30 am ar 17 Ionawr 2002.
Meg Munn
Labour/Co-operative, Sheffield, Heeley
9:30,
17 Ionawr 2002
I rise to support the principles proposed by my hon. Friend the Member for Chatham and Aylesford (Mr. Shaw) in new Clause 9. It is important to improve the regulation of private fostering. My hon. Friend said that he spoke with 10 years' experience of social services. I can take that and double it to 20 years.
A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
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During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
