The final item on the agenda is consideration of a paper on amendments to financial resolutions, which is also an Andrew Mylne issue. Andrew, do you want to say anything about the paper?
Very little. This short paper was prompted by a question at the committee's previous meeting, which was on a point that had not been addressed by the financial resolutions working group that I chaired.
I commend your turnaround.
It is useful to have this opportunity to complete the picture. The fact that standing orders do not provide for motions to amend financial resolutions was almost certainly an oversight. It is consistent with the spirit of the existing rule—and indeed the new rule that the committee has recommended—that that situation is corrected. I hope that it will prove to be a relatively uncontroversial matter.
Does the committee agree to that manuscript amendment?
If we say that such a motion might not be amended, the word "amended" in this context does not have a meaning that would prevent the negation of a financial resolution.
Certainly not. The Parliament's decision on whether to agree to a motion remains a straightforward—"Take it or leave it".
That is fine. Subject to that clarification, are members agreed to the proposal, which will go to Parliament in a subsequent report?
That brings the meeting to a conclusion.
Meeting closed at 12:32.
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