Former prime ministers retain the prefix The Right Honourable for the remainder of their lives ; should they remain sitting MPs, they may be referred as The Right Honourable Member for Electoral district ( Canada ) | riding < nowiki ></ nowiki > or by their portfolio title ( if appointed to one ), as in The Right Honourable Minister of National Defence.

Members of Parliament may be expelled from their party for failing to support the Government on important issues, and although this will not mean they must resign as MPs, it will usually make re-election difficult.

In general, however, the Prime Minister and their colleagues may secure the Commons ' support for almost any bill by internal party negotiations with little regard to opposition MPs.

Most senior policy will be made at the cabinet level, regardless of what individual MPs may or may not decide in committee, thus reducing the strength of committees.

In 1992 a number of MPs registered an official complaint about this practice, with some commenting that it " has undoubtedly been retained to deter honourable Members from raising points of order during divisions by making them appear ridiculous and feel acutely embarrassed ".< Ref > Early day motion 1623 In 1998 it was recommended that the opera hat be abandoned, since " although some Members may feel that they look particularly fetching in it, it makes the House of Commons look ridiculous when someone wearing the hat is trying to raise a point of order from a seated position while everyone else is milling around and going to vote.

In response to the House of Commons motion, Irving in a press statement challenged the MPs who voted to condemn him that: " I will enter the ' gas chambers ' of Auschwitz and you and your friends may lob in Zyklon B in accordance with the well known procedures and conditions.

It is argued that Scotland would trade a reduced voice for Scotland in exchange for Scottish MPs being able to vote on English matters, which therefore may form an acceptable solution.

The Senate does not originate most legislation ( although a small fraction of government bills are introduced in the Senate and Senators may introduce private members ' bills in the same way as MPs ) but acts as a chamber of revision almost always passing legislation approved by the House of Commons, made up of Members of Parliament ( MPs ) who are elected.

His refusal to get drawn in may have actually strengthened his hold over Conservative MPs, many of whom were similarly uninterested in social reform.

MPs who are not selected may be chosen to ask a supplementary question if they " catch the eye " of the Speaker, which is done by standing and sitting immediately before the prime minister gives an answer.

According to the BBC, the " overnight siege and the clashes may be linked to Monday's deadline for MPs to approve or reject a new cabinet.

Many MPs profited from using the allowance to assist them buying a home, the House of Commons considered this to be acceptable although they may profit by tens of thousands of pounds on the sale of the property.

He felt through his action that " the voice of a substantial part of the Labour party may be heard " over a measure which gained strong resistance among Labour MPs and supporters.

Hope was one of at least 177 MPs employing family members and the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority report published 2 years later, whilst tightening the rules, confirmed that a member may employ one relative subject to general conditions relating to expenses.

Parliamentary expenses rules forbid MPs from entering into arrangements which “ may give rise to an accusation ” of profiting from public funds.

The other 10 % may be non-MP experts or " technocrats " who are not otherwise disqualified from being elected MPs.

One side of this debate argues that United Future list MPs Larry Baldock, Bernie Ogilvy and Paul Adams all had involvement with evangelical organisations, such as Youth With A Mission, the Masters Institute in Auckland, and City Impact Church, and while they may not have been Christian Democrats, they were conservative Christian political activists and community figures before their entry to Parliament.

After the 2003 elections, there were at least ten MPs from Muslim background among the 150 Members of Parliament, but as few as three among them may have been active believers, while two explicitly classified themselves as ex-Muslims.

Because of the time allowance MPs may, in fact, be in nearby offices, restaurants, pubs or shops, some of which will have their own division bells connected to those within the confines of the Parliament's buildings, others will use a system of pagers co-ordinated by the Whip's office of each party.

Any unresolved matters following this recount are referred to the specially convened Eklogodikeion ( Court of Election ), which adjudicates and then officially publishes the names of elected MPs, so that the new Parliament may convene.

The motion was reportedly initiated due to MPs ' concerns over certain aspects of the budget, in particular the prospect that the government may no longer fully fund patients ' medical costs abroad.

When three former One Nation MPs, attended the public launch it fuelled media speculation that they may try and influence the new party.

But in that debate Asquith hinted – to ensure the support of the Irish MPs – that he would ask the King to break the deadlock " in that Parliament " ( i. e. hinting that he would ask for the mass creation of peers, contrary to Edward's earlier stipulation that there be a second election ).

Macmillan was succeeded as Prime Minister by the Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home in a controversial move ; it was alleged that Macmillan had pulled strings and utilised the party's grandees, nicknamed ' The Magic Circle ', who had slanted their " soundings " of opinion amongst MPs and Cabinet Ministers to ensure that Butler was not chosen as his successor.

Legislation relating to reserved issues such as defence, national security, foreign affairs and monetary and economic issues are voted on by all the MPs at Westminster to ensure consistency across the whole of the United Kingdom.

The Bankes family was able to ensure that at least one of the MPs returned to the House of Commons was a member of the family or a Bankes nominee.

In 2001, Bolkestein responded to the question raised by European MPs ( MEP ) Harlem Désir, Glyn Ford and Francis Wurtz, who asked the Commission to investigate the accusations brought forward by Révélation $, a book written by investigative journalist Denis Robert and former Clearstream member Ernest Backes, and to ensure that the 10 June 1990 directive ( 91 / 308 CE ) on control of financial establishment be applied in all member states in an effective way.

Krishan Kumar notes that support for measures to ensure that only English MPs can vote on legislation that applies only to England is generally higher than that for the establishment of an English parliament, although support for both varies depending on the timing of the opinion poll and the wording of the question.

Included in these rules are certain powers available to the Speaker to ensure reasonable behaviour by MPs, including the ability to remove disruptive MPs from the debating chamber.

Disliking e-mail, he would send brief written notes to like-minded MPs to say " I am given to understand that the Powers That Be think that Wednesday's business will go through easily ", and his group would ensure that Wednesday's business did not go through easily.

In the 1996 election, due to the need to decrease the number of general electorates in order to ensure a sufficient number of seats were available for list MPs, the population centres formerly in the Howick seat were merged into the former separate seat of Pakuranga.

With the government as whole commanding the support of five hundred and fifty-six MPs, as opposed to just fifty-eight opposition members, his main task was to ensure that the government stayed together and was able to pass contentious legislation without risking a major breach within the government.

Conservative MP David Maclean introduced the bill to ensure that MPs ' correspondence was exempt from freedom of information laws.

Academic Krishan Kumar notes that support for measures to ensure that only English MPs can vote on legislation that applies only to England is generally higher than that for the establishment of an English parliament, although support for both varies depending on the timing of the opinion poll and the wording of the question.

Non-constituency Members of Parliament ( NCMPs ) were introduced in 1984 to ensure the representation in Parliament of a minimum number of MPs from a political party or parties not forming the Government.

The primary role of a party whip in Parliament is to enforce party discipline and ensure that sufficient numbers of MPs from his or her political parties attend sittings of the House and vote along party lines.

One of the Commissioner's main tasks is overseeing the Register of Members ' Interests, which is intended to ensure disclosure of financial interests that may be of relevance to MPs ' work.

In a report published in March 2005, Vedanti said, " The basic duty of Sikh MPs in Canada should be to support laws that stop this kind of practice homosexuality, because there are thousands of Sikhs living in Canada, to ensure that Sikhs do not fall prey to this practice.

News statements are shown as continuously scrolling upper-case text located at the bottom of the screen ; some past ambiguities noted have included spelling the plural of MPs as " MPS ", together with other occasional spelling and grammatical errors.

Shortly after the 2005 general election, 412 of the 646 MPs signed EDM 178 calling for a Climate Change Bill ; only three other early day motions had ever been signed by more than 400 MPs.

The EDM had been tabled by MPs from the Democratic Unionist Party, and Connarty was the first MP from outside Northern Ireland to add his signature.