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Book Synopsis 6th Report of Session 2012-13: Electoral Registration and Administration Bill by : Stationery Office (U K )
Download or read book 6th Report of Session 2012-13: Electoral Registration and Administration Bill written by Stationery Office (U K ) and published by Stationery Office/Tso. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Electoral Registration and Administration Bill by : U K Stationery Office
Download or read book Electoral Registration and Administration Bill written by U K Stationery Office and published by Stationery Office/Tso. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Electoral Registration & Administration Bill published as HLB 33, session 2012-13 (ISBN 9780108436314
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780108550638 Total Pages :36 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (56 download)
Book Synopsis Legislative Scrutiny Update by : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Download or read book Legislative Scrutiny Update written by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides an update on the the progress of the Committee's lagislative scrutiny work as the end of the Parliamentary session approaches. It identifies the bills still under scrutiny - Children and Families Bill, the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill and the Energy Bill, all carried over to the next session - the bills cleared, and the bills the Committee have not been able to scrutinize properly. The Committee makes recommendations as to how obstacles to effective scrutiny can be overcome.
Book Synopsis The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue by : Stationery Office (Great Britain)
Download or read book The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue written by Stationery Office (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215062352 Total Pages :52 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (623 download)
Book Synopsis House of Commons - Political and Constitutional Reform Committee: The Government's Lobbying Bill - Volume I: HC 601-I by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
Download or read book House of Commons - Political and Constitutional Reform Committee: The Government's Lobbying Bill - Volume I: HC 601-I written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee supports the aims of increasing transparency in lobbying and effectively and fairly regulating third-party campaigning, but finds that the Government's bill is seriously flawed, because of inadequate consultation and a lack of pre-legislative scrutiny. Moreover, the definition of "consultant lobbying" is so narrow that not only would it exclude in-house lobbyists, which was the Government's intention, but it would also exclude the vast majority of third-party lobbyists and particularly the larger organisations. Many companies undertake lobbying as part of a wider communications and public relations business, and they spend very little of their time meeting directly with Ministers and Permanent Secretaries, meaning they could argue they were exempt from registering. The register should be expanded to include in-house lobbyists, and to cover the provision of advice on lobbying, as well as direct contact with Ministers and Permanent Secretaries. Special Advisers and Senior Civil Servants should be included in the list of people with whom contact counts as lobbying. Part 2 of the Bill, on non-party campaigning, and particularly the definition of spending "for electoral purposes" is confusing. The Committee urges the Government temporarily to withdraw the Bill and support a motion in the House to set up a special committee to carry out pre-legislative scrutiny, using the text of the existing Bill as a draft. The special committee should be charged with producing an improved Bill within six months.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215054449 Total Pages :30 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (544 download)
Book Synopsis Explanatory Statements on Amendments by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee
Download or read book Explanatory Statements on Amendments written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this report the Procedure Committee invites the House to expand the tabling of explanatory statements on amendments to all bills at both Committee and Report stage from the start of the 2013-14 Session. Explanatory statements enhance MPs' ability to scrutinise legislation, unpacking complex or technical amendments and so opening up the legislative process to the wider public, as well as providing greater focus for Members' arguments during debates. There have been several previous pilots of explanatory statements. During the current session, MPs have been permitted to table explanatory statements to two bills. Having evaluated the pilot on the basis of criteria agreed between the Committee and the Leader of the House, the Committee concludes that the time has come to end the experimental approach and allow the culture of explanatory statements to embed itself, in a permissive environment where space is provided to backbench Members, the Government and the Opposition to ensure that explanatory statements become an accepted norm of the legislative process. The Committee considered the possibility of imposing a mandatory requirement at some or all stages, but concluded that to do so would risk restricting Opposition and backbench MPs from tabling amendments and would therefore be damaging to the House's ability to scrutinise legislation.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215061812 Total Pages :16 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (618 download)
Book Synopsis House of Commons - Political and Constitutional Reform Committee: Parliament's Role in Conflict Decisions: an Update - HC 649 by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
Download or read book House of Commons - Political and Constitutional Reform Committee: Parliament's Role in Conflict Decisions: an Update - HC 649 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Further Government response to HC 923, session 2010-12 (ISBN 9780215559586). Earlier response published as HC 1477, session 2010-12 (ISBN 9780215561473)
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee Publisher :Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215059031 Total Pages :128 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (59 download)
Book Synopsis The impact and effectiveness of ministerial reshuffles by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
Download or read book The impact and effectiveness of ministerial reshuffles written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reshuffles are damaging to the effectiveness of individual Ministers and of Government as a whole. They also hinder Parliament's ability to hold Government to account. Every time there is a reshuffle, it is proceeded by months of speculation about who will move where, which in itself causes a kind of paralysis within Government. The Committee calls for Secretaries of State to be left in post for the length of a Parliament. Taken together with the advent of fixed-term Parliaments, this should enable them to make a real difference. Some reshuffling of ministers is inevitable because of resignations and illness but reshuffles have become a habit in the UK. The majority of the Committee concluded that there should be a specific Minister in the Cabinet Office who is responsible for ministerial development. He or she should oversee ministerial training and appraisal. There should also be compulsory training for all new Ministers, continuous professional development for experienced Ministers and basic ministerial training for shadow Ministers in the 12 months before the expected date of a general election. Outgoing Ministers should handover directly to their successors, rather than relying exclusively on the civil service to conduct handovers.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215052544 Total Pages :60 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (525 download)
Book Synopsis Prospects for Codifying the Relationship Between Central and Local Government by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
Download or read book Prospects for Codifying the Relationship Between Central and Local Government written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee has produced its own code, included in this report, for relations between central and local government. The code is intended to replace the estimated 1,293 duties imposed on local government today. The Committee concludes that the balance of power between central and local government is skewed in favour of the centre and needs to be addressed. The devolution of power to Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland has been successful and is an evolving process - there is no apparent reason why local government in England is not capable of using similar powers. Power and finance must go together, if local government is to become an equal partner it should have own source of revenue. Local authorities in England could also have a share of the existing income tax take and local councils freed to raise additional revenue, with the consent of their electorates. English local government lacks some of the most basic constitutional protections that are available to some of its counterparts in a number of other mature European democracies. The Government should examine the possibilities of a stronger constitutional status for local government, through an entrenched statutory code, or a similar proposal. A code for relations between central and local government, enforced by statute, could be beneficial to both tiers of government for several reasons. First, it could help set out exactly where powers do, and should, lie, thereby increasing transparency for the electors. Secondly, it could help redress the overcentralisation of England. Thirdly, it could provide an economic boost that the country sorely needs.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215046826 Total Pages :182 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (468 download)
Book Synopsis Introducing a statutory register of lobbyists by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
Download or read book Introducing a statutory register of lobbyists written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-07-13 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposals in the Government's consultation paper, Introducing a Statutory Register of Lobbyists (Cm 8233, ISBN 9780101823326), focused the register on those who undertake lobbying activities on behalf of a third party client. Under the proposals, a lobbyist who worked in house for a large company such as News International would not be required to register, whereas a 'one-man band' lobbyist would be, and have to name their clients, and pay for the privilege. There is no evidence to suggest that third party lobbyists are a particular problem within the lobbying community; the Government's own records of ministerial meetings suggest that third party lobbyists make up less than 1% of all meetings with Ministers. The Government should abandon its plans and introduce regulation to cover all those who lobby professionally, in a paid role, including those who lobby on behalf of charities, trade unions, and think tanks. The Committee specifically recommends the Government: publish information about ministerial meetings no more than a month after the month in which the meeting occurred; improve the level of detail in meeting disclosures, so that the actual topic of a meeting is disclosed, rather than obscure terms like 'general discussion'; publish, where applicable, the company or charity number of any organisation that meets with Ministers or officials, so that the identity of the organisation can be properly verified; standardise the format of meeting data, with a view to publishing all ministerial and official meetings on one website, rather than on many different Government websites.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215062796 Total Pages :110 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (627 download)
Book Synopsis House of Commons - Political and Constitutional Reform Committee: House of Lords Reform: What Next? - HC 251 by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
Download or read book House of Commons - Political and Constitutional Reform Committee: House of Lords Reform: What Next? - HC 251 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: House of Lords reform is a large and thorny issue on which it has proved very difficult to get political consensus. This inquiry focused on the incremental changes that could possibly be achieved outside the wider reforms that are doubtless required. Creating the power to remove Peers who have actually broken the law of the land and to remove persistent non-attendees will enjoy widespread support and would indicate that the unelected chamber was not opposed to sensible reform. Establishing a consensus about the principles that should determine the relative numerical strengths of the different party groups in the House of Lords, and for codifying such principles, is probably the most contentious of all the issues considered, but it is also the most crucial to any further progress. The Government and political parties in the Lords need to set out their positions on this matter and to engage in dialogue that will establish a consensus before the next General Election, so that both Houses can act upon an agreed reform
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Liaison Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215049889 Total Pages :86 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (498 download)
Book Synopsis Select Committee Effectiveness, Resources and Powers by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Liaison Committee
Download or read book Select Committee Effectiveness, Resources and Powers written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Liaison Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on reports from committees, evidence from outside observers and academic research, this report concludes that two years after the general election and the Wright reforms, the evidence is "broadly encouraging" - although committees face some obstacles and there is room for improvement. The "old doctrine by which ministers alone are accountable to Parliament for the conduct of their department is being stretched to implausibility and there is a need for a changed approach. It recommends that the Government engage with the Liaison Committee in a review of the relationship between Government and select committees with the aim of producing joint guidelines for departments and committees, which recognise ministerial accountability, the proper role of the Civil Service and the legitimate wish of Parliament for more effective accountability. The report also makes numerous recommendations for Committees, including: that they be forward-looking in scrutiny of departmental performance, devoting less effort to raking over the coals of past events unless there are lessons to be learnt; give more attention to the financial implications of departmental policy and how departments assess the effectiveness of their spending; experiment with different approaches to evidence-taking, broaden the range of witnesses, and make more use of commissioned research; follow up recommendations to ensure that reports have impact and report to the House at least once each Session on what has been done The Committee intends to ask the Backbench Business Committee for time for a debate in the House of Commons on a motion endorsing its conclusions and recommendations
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215070401 Total Pages :40 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (74 download)
Book Synopsis House of Commons - Political and Constitutional Reform Committee: Parliament's Role in Conflict Decisions: A Way Forward - HC 892 by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
Download or read book House of Commons - Political and Constitutional Reform Committee: Parliament's Role in Conflict Decisions: A Way Forward - HC 892 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee publishes its own draft parliamentary resolution setting out the process that should be followed to consult Parliament on conflict decisions, to serve as an interim step towards putting Parliament's role in war making decisions on a legal footing. The Committee has repeatedly called on Government to make progress on the Foreign Secretary's commitment in 2011 to "enshrine in law for the future the necessity of consulting Parliament on military action". The key points of the report are as follows: (1) The debate in the House of Commons on 29 August 2013 regarding Syria and the use of chemical weapons highlighted the important role Parliament plays in conflict decisions; (2) The Government needs to make a clear statement of how it intends to honour the Foreign Secretary's commitment of 2011, and give a specific Minister responsibility for making progress on this.; (3) A parliamentary resolution would serve as a useful interim step towards enshrining Parliament's role in law, by embedding the current convention and clarifying some of the ambiguities that exist under current arrangements.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee Publisher :Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215060747 Total Pages :138 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (67 download)
Book Synopsis Revisiting Rebuilding the House by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
Download or read book Revisiting Rebuilding the House written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reviews progress since 2009 on the recommendations of the Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons - known as the Wright Committee after its Chair, Dr Tony Wright - and looks forward. It concludes that: Commons select committees are more effective, and election of select committee chairs and members by MPs in a secret ballot, instead of being appointed by the whips, as recommended by Wright, have brought greater transparency and democracy; the Backbench Business Committee, another suggestion of Wright, has been a success, giving backbenchers the chance to decide the subjects of debates covering about a quarter of the House's time; another key Wright recommendation - a House Business Committee which would give backbenchers an influence on the rest of the House's agenda - can be and should be introduced without delay. The Coalition Agreement said in 2010 that the Committee would be established by the third year of this Parliament; the House's petitions procedure is failing to meet public expectations. There is too much confusion between the roles of Government and Parliament. The Committee argues that there is still a case for the establishment of a petitions committee and recommends that officials work up a detailed and costed proposition which could then be put to the House for its endorsement
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :021507193X Total Pages :48 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis HC 976 - Fixed-Term Parliaments: The Final Year of a Parliament by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
Download or read book HC 976 - Fixed-Term Parliaments: The Final Year of a Parliament written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the passage of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, the date of the next general election has been fixed by statute for 7 May 2015. Greater certainty about the date of the next general election has created a unique opportunity to consider how best this final year can be spent, and the Committee has heard that there is scope both to enhance the quality of public policy debate, and also to better prepare for the next Parliament. Key recommendations are: that this final year be used by the Government, Parliament and political parties to consider some of the long-term issues that will need to be addressed in the next Parliament; arrangements for pre-election contacts between the Civil Service and Opposition be formalised and authorised automatically in the final year of a Parliament, and that the Cabinet Manual should be updated to that effect; that parties work to develop a consensus, before the next general election, on how party policy could most effectively be costed ahead of future general elections - this would improve both policy formation and debate ahead of a general election. Achieving this will require active engagement from the Government, parliamentarians and political parties, and the Committee hopes they will all appreciate the potential for a constructive year ahead of the next general election, and support the recommendations.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215562180 Total Pages :156 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (621 download)
Book Synopsis Individual electoral registration and electoral administration by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
Download or read book Individual electoral registration and electoral administration written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this report the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee welcomes the Government's decision to move to a system of individual electoral registration in 2014-15, to replace the existing outdated system of registration by household. The Committee raises a number of concerns about the Government's implementation plan. Firstly, levels of registration will fall, by an uncertain amount at first, and if this fall is uneven across the country, it will have a marked and potentially partisan effect on the parliamentary constituency boundaries to be used at the 2020 general election. This risk is enhanced by the proposal to make voter registration voluntary. The Committee recommends that it should initially be an offence to fail to complete a voter registration form, as is currently the case in Northern Ireland. A second concern is that the electoral registers used for the 2015 general election, and initial invitations to register individually, will contain significant inaccuracies. This is because of the Government's decision not to remove voters registered in 2013 from the rolls until after that general, combined with the decision not to hold a full household canvass in 2014. Thirdly, vulnerable electors may be disenfranchised by the Government's decision to require postal and proxy voters to register individually before the 2015 general election. The Committee also recommends the abolition of the edited register. The report also comments on other electoral reforms the Government is proposing, including to the timetable for parliamentary elections, and largely endorses them.
