Modernising the commons

Political Quarterly

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 152-160

  Seaton, Janet ^a   Winetrobe, Barry K ^a  

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EID: 0033116709     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-923X.00216     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. For brevity, parliamentary reports, debates and other material are not cited in detail here. The relevant parts of the House of Commons area of the parliamentary website (www.parliament.uk) contain all this information.
2. The Legislative Process: First Report of 1997-98, HC 190, July 1997; debated and approved November 1997.
3. This is considered more fully in J. Seaton and B. Winetrobe, "The Passage of Constitutional Bills in Parliament', Journal of Legislative Studies, 1998, pp. 33-52.
4. Pensions on Divorce: Fifth Report of 1997-98, HC 869, October 1998.
5. The Parliamentary Calendar: Initial Proposals: First Report of 1998-99, HC 60, December 1998; debated and approved December 1998.
6. Formerly known, from its location, as the 'Moses Room procedure'.
7. See, respectively, its fifth report of 1997-8, HC 699, May 1998, and its sixth report of 1997-8, HC 779, June 1998.
8. HC 791, debated and approved in November that year.
9. On which see e.g. P. Giddings, ed., Parliamentary Accountability: A Study of Parliament and Executive Agencies, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1995.
10. See B. Winetrobe, 'The Autonomy of Parliament', in D. Oliver and G. Drewry, eds, Law and Parliament, London, Butterworths, 1998, ch. 2.