Part of Adoption and Children Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 10:15 am ar 17 Ionawr 2002.
Jonathan R Shaw
Llafur, Chatham and Aylesford
10:15,
17 Ionawr 2002
My hon. Friend has talked about awareness. Does she concede that it is completely inadequate that there should have been a wait of two years for the Government to do what they said about conducting an awareness campaign?
A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
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.
