At committee stage, peers voted down an amendment the government had promised to defuse opposition to the bill in the Commons - to add a "sunset clause" - leaving the MPs that accepted assurances that it would be added rather peeved.

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The SNP plan to table the amendment when the budget has completed its committee stage in late June.

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She had put the amendment down immediately after the conclusion of the Committee stage, which usually ensures it will be called at Report, where I would expect a fair amount of opposition.

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Lord Newton of Braintree, a former Conservative cabinet minister, said he was "inclined" to support Lord Pannick's amendment, despite not agreeing with it when it was presented at committee stage.

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Lord Rix, a crossbencher and president of disability campaign group Mencap, introduced an amendment to that effect as peers took part in a third day of committee-stage debate on the bill on 7 November 2011.

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At the second stage, the bill is given further scrutiny by MSPs in the relevant committee, and subject to amendment.

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Tory peer Lord Crickhowell, the former Welsh Secretary Nicholas Edwards, called for major changes to the bill but said he did not support Labour's amendment seeking to refer the bill to a specially formed select committee in advance of its normal committee stage.

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