In the United Kingdom, the influence of parliamentary select committees on policy depends substantially on the 'seriousness' with which they approach the task of gathering and evaluating a wide range of evidence and producing reports and recommendations based on it. However, select committees are ...
Parliamentary select committees are an increasingly important part of the democratic process in the UK. Their impact has grown in recent years, as has their media profile. The latter is partly due to the appearance of high-profile witnesses as committee hearings. The calling of witnesses is, in...
According to the women NIPS, their presence in Parliament has enabled the articulation of a feminised agenda in parliamentary debates, in select committees ... C Sarah - 《Parliamentary Affairs》 被引量: 41发表: 2002年 Information Integration on the Web The Impact of population mobility on provin...
House of Commons/Lord PapersThese are papers which result from the work of the House and its Committees or are otherwise necessary for its work. To include select committee papers, minutes of proceedings of public bill committees, estimates and appropriation accounts. The papers start from 1 at ...
Government initiative.Reform can come directly from government proposals, drawn up under the authority of ministers. Those ministers might respond to suggestions from elsewhere, and informally consult relevant MPs or select committees. But under this approach, the initiative for developing and bringing fo...
【24hr】Reviewing Select Committee Tasks and Modes of Operation 包量 机译 审查特选委员会的任务和运作方式 作者:Alex Brazier; 刊名:Parliamentary Affairs 2011年第2期 摘要:Departmental select committees are now the principal mechanism through which the House of Commons holds the executive to account...
In the UK, it is commonly proposed that the accountability gap resulting from ministers' reluctance to accept responsibility for departmental failures could be closed by giving parliamentary select committees stronger investigative powers. In the Sandline affair the Foreign Affairs Committee sought to take...
Sessional Papersare the papers presented to Parliament: bills, reports of committees, papers presented by Royal Commissions and government departments, and “accounts and papers,” which include treaties, international agreements, and statistics.
Under normal procedures, local Conservative associations can select from a choice as large as 20 candidates, butCCHQ’s approachhas been to shadow their by-election selection procedure, presenting local selectorates with a shortlist of three candidates. This procedure has beenimposedfor every marginal...
Also, in response to the current localism reforms of the UK coalition government, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) published a significant report examining the implications of such reforms to the functionality of Parliament. The report found that select committees were at risk of being ...