Draft affirmative Procedure concluded in the House of Commons

Instruments subject to the draft affirmative procedure are laid in draft and require approval in Parliament before being signed into law. Instruments concerning taxation are not laid in the Lords and only require the approval of the Commons. The Commons debates the instrument in a Delegated Legislation Committee or in the Commons Chamber, where a decision on approval is made. The Lords debates the instrument in Grand Committee or in the Lords Chamber, where a decision on approval is made.

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House of Commons

A step of type Business step.

Procedure identifier

https://id.parliament.uk/H5YJQsK2

SPARQL queries used by this page

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      PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
      PREFIX : <https://id.parliament.uk/schema/>
      PREFIX id: <https://id.parliament.uk/>
      SELECT distinct ?Procedure ?ProcedureName ?step ?stepName ?legislature ?legislatureName ?CommonsId ?LordsId ?stepType ?stepTypeLabel WHERE {
        ?Procedure a :Procedure;
                   :name ?ProcedureName.
           filter (?Procedure in (id:H5YJQsK2))
        optional {  ?Procedure :procedureHasProcedureRoute ?Route.
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          ?step :name ?stepName.
        ?step :procedureStepHasProcedureStepType ?stepType.
               ?stepType :name ?stepTypeLabel.}
          Optional {?step :procedureStepInLegislature ?legislature.
          ?legislature :name ?legislatureName.}
          Optional {?step :procedureStepHasHouse ?CommonsId
          filter (?CommonsId IN (id:1AFu55Hs))}
          Optional {?step :procedureStepHasHouse ?LordsId.
            filter (?LordsId IN (id:WkUWUBMx))}
        filter (?step IN (id:hN1EDPLv))
        } order by ?stepName