Use Of Hand Held Electronic Devices In The Chamber And Committees

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215557085

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Use of hand-held electronic devices in the Chamber and committees by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee Pdf

The Procedure Committee believes MPs should be allowed to use handheld electronic devices, such as iPads and smartphones, in the Chamber of the House of Commons provided that they do so with decorum and regard for others. The committee recommends that the House of Commons agree to the following new resolution: "That hand-held electronic devices (not laptops) may be used in the Chamber, provided that they are silent, and used in a way that does not impair decorum; that Members making speeches in the Chamber or in committee may refer to electronic devices in place of paper speaking notes; and that electronic devices, including laptops, may be used silently in committee meetings, including select committees." The committee recognises that there is a wide range of opinions on this and proposes a review of the new arrangements after a year.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215048385

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Sessional Returns by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons Pdf

On cover and title page: House, committees of the whole House, general committees and select committees

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215051068

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E-tabling of Written Questions by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee Pdf

On 13 October 2011 the House agreed to a 3-month experiment with restrictions on the number of questions which could be tabled electronically on any one day and an earlier deadline for their submission. The Table Office has provided us with a memorandum assessing the impact of those changes, and recommending that the experiment be made permanent.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215056930

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Debates on Government E-petitions in Westminster Hall by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee Pdf

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.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Procedure,Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Parliamentary practice
ISBN : 9780215084248

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HC 1121 - Matters for the Procedure Committee in the 2015 Parliament by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Procedure,Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee Pdf

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215050738

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Review of the Backbench Business Committee by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee Pdf

Additional written evidence is contained in Vol. 2, available on the Committee website at www.parliament.uk/proccom

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Procedure
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780215078964

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HC 235 - E-petitions: a collaborative system by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Procedure Pdf

The public will be able to petition the House of Commons electronically for the first time, under proposals published by the House of Commons Procedure Committee today. The system the Committee puts forward is based on the existing Government e-petition site, redesigned and rebranded to show that it is jointly run between the House of Commons and the Government. Crucially, it will be backed by the establishment of a new Petitions Committee, which will be able to hear petitioners' concerns and scrutinise the Government's response. The Petitions Committee will consider both e-petitions and paper petitions presented under the existing procedures. When it identifies a petition meriting further action, it will be able to: correspond with petitioners on their petition; call petitioners for oral evidence; refer a petition to the relevant select committee; seek further information from the Government, orally or in writing, on the subject of a petition; and put forward petitions for debate in the House

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215041836

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E-tabling of parliamentary questions for written answer by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee Pdf

On 13 October 2011 the House agreed to a 3-month experiment with restrictions on the number of questions which could be tabled electronically on any one day and an earlier deadline for their submission. The Table Office has provided the Committee with a memorandum assessing the impact of those changes, and recommending that the experiment be made permanent. The Committee, therefore agree with the Table Office's conclusions and recommend that the restrictions on e-tabling which have been piloted should continue. The Committee also recommends that the consequent upgrade to the e-tabling system include improvements such as the introduction of a basket in which to keep PQs prior to their submission, if and when they prove technically feasible.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215054636

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Statements by Members who Answer on Behalf of Statutory Bodies by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee Pdf

The Standing Orders and the practice of the House enable Ministers to make written and oral statements to the House on matters of public importance. That facility is not available to Members who answer in the House on behalf of statutory bodies which are not subject to direct Ministerial accountability such as the House of Commons Commission and the Church Commissioners. Consequently contrivances such as a "planted" written question or an agreed urgent question are necessary in circumstances where an announcement is to be made to the House. The Committee considered whether arrangements might be put in place to enable, in appropriate circumstances, Members answering in the House on behalf of statutory bodies to make written and oral statements. They recommend that the necessary amendments be made to Standing Order No. 22A to enable those Members to make written statements and that those Members who are for the time being on the rota for oral questions should be enabled, on being granted permission in advance by the Speaker, to make an oral statement to the House

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee
Publisher : Stationery Office
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215057376

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Monitoring written Parliamentary questions by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee Pdf

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.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 021505444X

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Explanatory Statements on Amendments by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee Pdf

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: Procedure Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Parliamentary practice
ISBN : 0215045610

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Sitting Hours and the Parliamentary Calendar by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee Pdf

There has been a huge in increase in the constituency workload over the past few years adding to the pressure on Members of Parliament. Each Member has a different way of working which means in considering sitting hours there are no mainstream options which are necessarily right or wrong. The evidence suggests that the current balance of about 150 days over 34 weeks per year is broadly correct and should remain approximately as is. The Committee recommends that the House should be given the opportunity to vote on whether the House should continue to sit in September from 2013 onwards. There is widespread recognition that there is no scope for any diminution in the time available to the House for debate and scrutiny of legislation. The current pattern of 8 sitting hours on each sitting day between Monday and Thursday should therefore also continue, subject to future decisions concerning Friday sittings. Suggestions were heard that the House should sit normal working hours but that could be ill-suited to the transaction of other important Parliamentary business and needs of Members whose constituencies are some distance from Westminster. The House should be enabled to come to a decision in respect of each different day. The Committee is also currently considering whether consideration of private Members' bills should be moved from Fridays; and programming of legislation. The proposal of 'injury time' to compensate for time spent on oral statements was deemed undesirable but the Committee suggests that there should be a mechanism for backbenchers to question a Minister between 11.00 and 11.30 on Wednesdays

Author : Cristina Leston-Bandeira,Louise Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780198788430

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Exploring Parliament by Cristina Leston-Bandeira,Louise Thompson Pdf

"The only text to combine academic and practitioner perspectives with evidence based case studies to reveal what really goes on behind the scenes of Parliament. Draws on the perspectives of academics and parliamentary practitioners, to give students an authentic insight into the workings of Parliament. Provides a series of evidence-based case studies so that students can fully understand the reality of Parliament in practice. Explores the relationships between the different structures, parliamentarians and practitioners within Parliament on both a formal and an informal level, to enable student to understand the essential processes and actors." --

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Parliamentary practice
ISBN : 0215038584

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Lay Membership of the Committee on Standards and Privileges by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee Pdf

The House should be given the opportunity to restate its acceptance of the principle behind the proposal that lay members be added to the Committee on Standards and Privileges, the Procedure Committee concludes in a report published today. The committee's report responds to the resolution of the House of 2 December last year that lay members should sit on the Committee on Standards and Privileges. If that principle is restated, the House should study with care the arguments made for the inclusion of lay members with or without voting rights, and decide whether lay members should be appointed to the committee with full voting rights or whether they should be appointed with more limited rights protected by rules on quorum and publication of their opinion or advice. A decision in favour of membership with full voting rights would require legislation to be brought forward to put beyond reasonable doubt any question of whether parliamentary privilege applies to the Committee on Standards where it has an element of lay membership. The Procedure Committee recommends that the Committee on Standards and Privileges should be split in two, and that lay members should be included only on the committee relating to standards. The committee also makes a number of practical recommendations about the number, appointment and term of office of lay members.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Procedure
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780215078742

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HC 753 - Motions "That The House Sit In Private" by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Procedure Pdf

This report proposes the repeal of Standing Order no. 163 and its replacement with a revised standing order which gives discretion to the Speaker, or the chair, to allow debate on a motion to sit in private, to put the question forthwith, or to decline to propose the question in the House. The proposal also includes provision for the House to come out of a private sitting and to return to sitting in public