ABSTRACT
The House of Commons Procedure Committee and the House of Lords Procedure Committee have recently agreed to extend the procedure to Public Bills. Where a Bill is in the Commons at the end of one session, and a Suspension Motion is agreed, that Bill will be able to continue its life into the next session. However, the procedure is not designed to ‘rescue’ contentious Bills over which the two Houses disagree.44 Rather, the procedure will apply to those Bills which the government notifies to the House of Commons as candidates for the ‘carry over’ procedure. It will be for the Commons to agree the motion to suspend the Bill, should the need arise.
