Sentence examples for second reading debate from inspiring English sources

But in last week's second reading debate Winston also emphasised that, for all its faults, the NHS still performs well for less money than many healthcare systems – US or Germany anyone?

About 30 MPs were present in the Commons for the second reading debate.

Robustly defending the bill during the second reading debate on 26 October 2005, Clarke declared: "We cannot properly fight terrorism with one hand tied behind our back".

He said he would adopt the EU referendum bill and so now a second reading debate will take place, possibly on Friday 5 July.

A glance at the second reading debate would have shown that the government comprehensively lost the argument.Second, you said baldly that the House of Lords ought to be elected, and reached for standard lines about placemen and hereditaries.

In his contribution to the second reading debate, veteran campaigner Lord Rix acknowledged that "freedom" was a key principle for academies, but questioned how that fitted with "accountability to parents of SEN children".

There is hope – there is real hope – that if only the Government would accept that small change of name all parties in the House of Commons without exception might try to make the Bill a practical workable instrument, for what the second reading debates have shown is that there is really next to no opposition in the House of Commons to Home Rule itself.

The third reading debate was guillotined to just eight hours.

The report stage debate will run until 4pm, and the third reading debate until 5pm.

This is what Yvette Cooper said in her speech in the third reading debate.

Yvette Cooper in the third reading debate Photograph: /BBC Parliament UPDATE at 5.16pm: The bill did get its third reading (no surprise).