Parliamentary Accountability
Parliamentary Accountability

Author: Philip Giddings

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1349136824

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Written by members of the Study of Parliament Group, this book assesses Parliament's response to the reorganisation of much of the civil service into 'executive agencies'. Chief executives have been given freedom to take operational decisions. Yet Ministers insist that they themselves remain constitutionally responsible for the work of the agencies. After reviewing Parliament's mechanisms and considering several case-studies, the authors conclude that Parliament has yet to exploit fully the opportunities for greater accountability which the new arrangements provide.

Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency
Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency

Author: Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9780102910735

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The main work of the Inspectorate is the processing of planning and enforcement appeals and holding inquiries into local development plans. It also deals with a wide variety of other planning related casework including listed building consent appeals, advertisement appeals, and reporting on planning applications called in for decision (by the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, or, in Wales, by the National Assembly for Wales), various compulsory purchase orders, rights of way cases and cases arising from the Environmental Protection and Water Acts and the Transport and Works Act. In the report year the Inspectorate has met the timeliness targets set by ministers for the three key procedures of planning appeals in England, written representations, hearings and public enquiries. During the year, the Environment, Transport and Select Committee examined the Agency and its work on public enquiries (13th report, session 1999-2000, House of Commons paper 364-I, ISBN 0102468001): this was complimentary, but the Agency is looking closely at all the recommendations with a view to implementing them were possible.