Part of Finance Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 11:45 am ar 13 Mehefin 2013.
Ian Mearns
Llafur, Gateshead
11:45,
13 Mehefin 2013
We need to reiterate from time to time that the downturn and the ongoing crisis in our economy are having very different effects in different places. Although we were told this week that, thankfully, unemployment went down for the whole country by 5,000, in the north-east, unemployment actually rose by 4,000, to 131,000 or 10.1% of the working population; added to that we have youth unemployment among 16 to 25-year-olds of 24.9%. That shows that we need to look at how the crisis is affecting different parts of our country.
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.
