Author: Great Britain: Cabinet OfficePublisher:
ISBN: 9780101605625
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Reply to 4th report, HCP 165-I, session 2002-03 (ISBN 021501166X)
Government Response to the Public Administration Select Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2002-2003 Government by Appointment: Opening Up the Patronage State (HC 165)
Author: Great Britain: Cabinet OfficePublisher:
ISBN: 9780101605625
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Reply to 4th report, HCP 165-I, session 2002-03 (ISBN 021501166X)
Government Response to the Public Administration Select Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2002-03
Author: Legislation at Westminster
Author: Meg RussellPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191068330
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The Westminster parliament is a highly visible political institution, and one of its core functions is approving new laws. Yet Britain's legislative process is often seen as executive-dominated, and parliament as relatively weak. As this book shows, such impressions can be misleading. Drawing on the largest study of its kind for more than forty years, Meg Russell and Daniel Gover cast new light on the political dynamics that shape the legislative process. They provide a fascinating account of the passage of twelve government bills - collectively attracting more than 4000 proposed amendments - through both the House of Commons and House of Lords. These include highly contested changes such as Labour's identity cards scheme and the coalition's welfare reforms, alongside other relatively uncontroversial measures. As well as studying the parliamentary record and amendments, the study draws from more than 100 interviews with legislative insiders. Following introductory chapters about the Westminster legislative process, the book focuses on the contribution of distinct parliamentary 'actors', including the government, opposition, backbenchers, select committees, and pressure groups. It considers their behaviour in the legislative process, what they seek to achieve, and crucially how they influence policy decisions. The final chapter reflects on Westminster's influence overall, showing this to be far greater than commonly assumed. Parliamentary influence is asserted in various different ways - ranging from visible amendments to more subtle means of changing government's behaviour. The book's findings make an important contribution to understanding both British politics and the dynamics of legislative bodies more broadly. Its readability and relevance will appeal to both specialists and general readers with interests in politics and law, in the UK and beyond.
Pre-appointment hearings by select committees
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Liaison CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215514035
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Pre-appointment hearings by select Committees : First report session 2007 - 2008, report and annexes, together with formal Minutes
Ministerial Accountability and Parliamentary Questions
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215023247
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
This is the seventh report on Ministerial Accountability and Parliamentary Questions and the last that covers the workings of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information, as in January 2005 this Code was superseded by the Freedom of Information Act. Amongst its conclusions are a concerned that departments have failed to honour fully their undertaking to provide specific Code exemption when they failed to give answers on public interest grounds. The Committee will monitor the effect of the Freedom of Information Act but believes that Cabinet Office guidance is inconsistent with earlier practice and should be reconsidered. The Committee also recommend that there should be an annual report of departmental performance on named-day questions and they strongly deplore and attempt to use the new arrangements of dealing with Questions before Prorogation as a means of avoiding answering a Question.
The work of committees in 2008-09
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Liaison CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215544742
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
work of committees In 2008-09 : Second report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal minutes and Appendices
The governance of Britain
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0215035151
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
This report, from the Public Administration Select Committee looks at the Governance of Britain Green Paper, as published on 3rd July 2007 (Cm.7170, ISBN 9780101717021). The stated aim of the document, by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was "a new constitutional settlement that entrusts more power to Parliament and the British people", with two objectives as the bedrock to this approach: (i) to hold power more accountable; (ii) to uphold and enhance the rights and responsibilities of the citizen. The Committee commends the statement and the wide-ranging programme as set out in the Green Paper, and the call for wide consultation and cross-party input. The Committee sees the goals of a new constitutional settlement as ambitious and laudable, but which will require considerable care in establishing a rebalance, in the Committee's view, of the relationship between Government, Parliament and the public.
Executive Power
Author: Robert HazellPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509951458
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
This book considers the function of the royal prerogative in the changing landscape of the British constitution. It explains each of the prerogative powers in separate chapters. It clarifies the respective roles of government, Parliament and the courts in defining the extent of prerogative powers, and in regulating their use. It also looks at which powers should be codified in statute, which should be regulated by convention, and which could be left at large. The book is very timely in contributing to current debates. The fevered parliamentary debates over Brexit thrust the prerogative centre-stage. Recent controversies have ranged from the role of Parliament in assenting to treaties, to the prorogation and dissolution of Parliament, to the grant or withholding of royal assent to bills. In their 2019 election manifesto, the Conservative Party stated that 'After Brexit we also need to look at the broader aspects of our constitution, the relationship between the Government, Parliament and the courts; the functioning of the Royal Prerogative...'. The book covers the whole range of prerogative powers, from going to war and ratifying treaties, appointing and dismissing ministers, regulating the civil service and public appointments, to the grant of honours and pardons and the issue of passports. Its 19 chapters provide a comprehensive guide to the operation of the prerogative – past, present, and future – together with suggestions for reform.
Delegated Governance and the British State
Author: Matthew FlindersPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191556637
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The delegation of functions and responsibilities to quasi-autonomous bodies operating with a significant degree of autonomy arguably empowers governments to address a wide range of social issues simultaneously without having to be involved with the minutiae of day-to-day socio-political interactions. Delegation therefore provides a structural and esoteric capacity beyond the cognitive and physical limits of politicians. There is nothing wrong with delegation as such. The problem relates to the failure to manage delegation in Britain. And yet we actually know very little about how the state beyond the core actually operates, how many bodies exist, what they do, how they are recruited, or why they were created. These gaps in our knowledge are all the more problematic in light of recent pronouncements by politicians at the national and European levels that 'depoliticisation' is a central strand of their approach to governing. This book seeks to fill these gaps in our knowledge while at the same time cultivating a more balanced or sophisticated approach to the study of delegation. Delegated public bodies as they have been used as a tool of governance in the past should not be confused with how they might be used in the future. This book draws upon research conducted within the very core of the British political system during a Whitehall Fellowship within the Cabinet Office. It argues that the British state is 'walking without order' due to a general acceptance of the logic of delegation without any detailed or principled consideration of the administrative of democratic consequences of this process. In order to underline and develop this argument this books analyses the history of delegated governance in Britain before mapping out the topography of the state beyond the core. Delineating the contours of the state in this way, as well as drawing on theoretical models and insights that have been developed in not only other disciplines but also in relation to other governance frameworks, provides new perspectives on perennial themes and issues. It also raises new questions about the role of the state, the capacity for collective action, the need to reflect on the logic of delegation vis-à-vis specific models or forms of democracy, and the need to politicize the logic of delegation by locating it back within the sphere of public contestation. As such the research presented in this book and the conceptual framework it develops will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and politicians around the world with an interest in multi-level governance, public policy, and democratic design.
Public Law: Text, Cases, and Materials 2e
Author: Andrew Le SueurPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199644187
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
This dynamic text, cases, & materials book provides a thought-provoking guide to the public law of the UK. It sets out key institutions, legal principles, and conventions and its clear commentary draws on case studies and extracts from a range of sources to provide a full understanding of the law and the major theoretical and political debates.