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Procedure Committee Second Special Report Government Response to the Second Report of the Committee: Parliamentary Scrutiny of Treaties
Author: Parliamentary Scrutiny of Treaties
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Procedure CommitteePublisher:
ISBN: 9780102700008
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Procedure Committee Second Report Parliamentary Scrutiny of Treaties Report, Together with the Proceedings of the Committee Relating to the Report, Minutes of Evidence and Appendices
Author: Parliamentary Scrutiny of the Co-decision Procedure and the Government's Reply to the First Special Report from the Committee
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on European LegislationPublisher:
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Languages : en
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HC 1121 - Matters for the Procedure Committee in the 2015 Parliament
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on ProcedurePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0215084241
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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Monitoring written Parliamentary questions
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure CommitteePublisher: Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215057372
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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In October 2010 the Committee in response to a report by its predecessor committee began a trial exercise in monitoring unsatisfactory and late answers to written Parliamentary questions. With just over 50 complaints from Members in response to the exercise of which half were followed up. This resulted in answers for Members on a number of occasions in circumstances where they would otherwise have found difficult or impossible to follow up on an inadequate response. The exercise will now come to an end and be put on a more permanent footing.In consideration of a memorandum from the Leader of the House providing statistics on the time taken to respond to WPQs in 2010-12, the committee has sought explanations from Ministers in charge of poorly performing departments for the level of performance in the memorandum and what steps are being taken to improve these levels. The Department for Education had a particularly poor performance and evidence was taken from the Parliamentary Under Secretary and a senior official in the Department which the Committee found unsatisfactory with and so a follow up session with the Permanent Secretary and Secretary of State was undertaken. The Committee will continue its interest in the answering performance of this Department and hold it to further account should its performance not improve markedly.
Explanatory Statements on Amendments
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215054449
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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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.
Debates on Government E-petitions in Westminster Hall
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215056931
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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In July 2012, the House agreed to allow debates on Government e-petitions to take place on Mondays in Westminster Hall, on a trial basis during the current session. Three debates have taken place during the session, with a fourth scheduled on the day of publication of this report (22 April 2013). The Government's e-petitions website continues to be popular, and a dedicated slot in Westminster Hall on Monday afternoon provides a clear end-point for the process. The Procedure Committee agrees with the Backbench Business Committee that the trial has been successful and recommends that the temporary changes to the Standing Orders be made permanent.
The Fluid State
Author: Hilary CharlesworthPublisher: Federation Press
ISBN: 9781862875685
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Fluid State was cited by the High Court in Momcilovic v The Queen [2011] HCA 34 (8 September 2011)Traditional accounts of the relationship between international and national law present the interaction between the two as relatively ordered, if conflicting. This limited view of the relationship has become outmoded, as the scope of international legal regulation and the internationalised context of domestic law continue to expand. This book analyses some of the national contexts in which international law and domestic law interact and identifies the way in which attitudes to international law shift between them. Some of the questions considered are:How do perceptions of international law differ according to particular institutional vantage-points, whether that of the executive, the legislature or the judiciary? What is the impact of the perceived 'democratic deficit' in international treaty-making? What are some of the ways in which the judiciary acts as a gatekeeper between the national and international legal orders? How does national politics influence engagement with the international sphere? The contributors bring a range of different perspectives: politics, law and international relations. They include influential scholars such as Mayo Moran, Ann Capling, John Uhr, Andrew Byrnes and Janet MacLean and they discuss contemporary issues, such as the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement and the 2003 Iraq War.
Parliamentary Scrutiny of Treaties
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on ProcedurePublisher:
ISBN: 9780102536003
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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