Parliament and the Legislative Process
Parliament and the Legislative Process

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the Constitution

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2005-04-20

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 9780104006658

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Response to the Committees 14th report of session 2003-04 (HLP 173-I, ISBN 0104005416).

Government Response to the House of Lords Constitution Committee, Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and Public Administration Select Committee on the Cabinet Manual Committee Reports of Session 2010-12
Government Response to the House of Lords Constitution Committee, Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and Public Administration Select Committee on the Cabinet Manual Committee Reports of Session 2010-12

Author: Great Britain. Parliament

Publisher:

Published: 2011-10-24

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 9780101821322

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Government response to: Constitution Committee 12th report (HL 107, ISBN 9780108473142); Political and Constitutional Reform Committee 6th report (HC 734, ISBN 9780215557148); and Public Administration Select Committee 8th report (HC 900, ISBN 9780215559005). An interim government response to the PASC report published as the Committee's 1st special report of session 2010-12 (HC 1127, ISBN 9780215560056)

Parliament and the Legislative Process
Parliament and the Legislative Process

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the Constitution

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780104005415

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The Committees report examines parliamentary scrutiny of legislation, focusing on the process for dealing with primary legislation (i.e. the scrutiny of parliamentary bills). This examination is carried out in the light of the Rippon Commission report on the topic (Making the Law produced by the Hansard Society Commission on the Legislative Process) which was published in 1992. Topics discussed include the mechanisms for pre-legislative and post-legislative scrutiny, the growth of legislation, the dissemination of information and ways of gauging public opinion through consultation. Conclusions drawn by the Committee include concern over the growth in the number and complexity of bills being presented to Parliament without adequate expansion in the capacity to deliver effective scrutiny. The report contains a number of proposals designed to help engender a culture shift away from this unsustainable volume of legislation, towards a culture of justification which encourages government to adopt a more disciplined approach to the introduction of bills based on the objective of effectiveness rather than quantity.