Parliament and government, 2005-06: Reforms and reflections

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 694-702

  Whitaker, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33749640355     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: 14602482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsl042     Document Type: Note

References (27)

1. I am grateful to an anonymous referee for helpful comments. All errors are my own.
2. A. Trench, 'The Government of Wales Act 2006: The Next Steps in Devolution for Wales', Public Law, Winter 2006, pp. 587-96.
3. P. Cowley and M. Stuart, 'The Education and Inspections Bill's First Day in Report', Briefing Paper, 24.05.06, http://www.revolts.co.uk.
4. P. Cowley and M. Stuart, 'The Education and Inspections Bill's Second Day in Report', Briefing Paper, 7.06.06, http://www.revolts.co.uk.
5. See David Cameron's speech at the launch of the Conservatives' Democracy Task Force (06.02.06) and his speech to the Power Inquiry (06.05.06) for more details. Both are available at http://www.conservatives.com.
6. Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons, The Legislative Process, First Report 1997-98 session, HC 190.
7. The special select committee procedure was first established in 1980 and was used for only nine bills before 1997. See R. Rogers and R. Walters, How Parliament Works, 5th edn, Pearson, 2004, pp. 202-3.
8. Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons, Corrected Transcript of Oral Evidence: The Legislative Process, HC 1097-v, 28.06.06, answer to Q166.
9. See for example, Richard Schofield's answer to Q192 in Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons, Corrected Transcript of Oral Evidence: The Legislative Process, HC 1097-v, 28.06.06.
10. G. Brandreth, Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries, Phoenix, 2000, p. 191.
11. D. Judge, The Parliamentary State, Sage, 1993, p. 215.
12. See Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons, Uncorrected Transcript of Oral Evidence: The Legislative Process, HC 1097-iv, 21.06.06. NB: This transcript is not yet an approved formal record of the proceedings.
13. For details of bills published in draft form, see http://www.parliament. uk/bills/draftbills.cfm.
14. Sir Roger Sands, Clerk of the House in answer to Q255, see Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons, Corrected Transcript of Oral Evidence: The Legislative Process, HC 1097-vi, 05.07.06.
15. According to the website for the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons (http://www.commonsleader. gov.uk), six bills are scheduled to be published in draft this session.
16. Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons, Corrected Transcript of Oral Evidence: The Legislative Process, HC 1097-iii, 24.05.06.
17. A. Kennon, 'Pre-legislative Scrutiny of Draft Bills', Public Law, Autumn 2004, pp. 477-94.
18. A. Kennon, 'Pre-legislative Public Law, 2004, Ibid., p. 492.
19. Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons, Corrected Transcript of Oral Evidence: The Legislative Process, HC 1097-i, 10.05.06.
20. For more detailed discussion of the second of these aims, see Select Committee on the Constitution, Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill: Report with Evidence, 11th Report of Session 2005-06, HL Paper 194, June 2006.
21. Regulatory Reform Committee, Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill: First Special Report, Session 2005-06, HC 878, January 2006.
22. Select Committee on the Constitution, Legislative Regulatory and Reform Bill, p. 7.
23. The Times, 16.02.06, p. 18.
24. BBC News, 22.02.06, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4738858.stm.
25. Regulatory Reform Committee, Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill.
26. The Daily Telegraph, 20.03.06, p. 2.
27. See the list of government defeats in the Lords maintained by the Constitution Unit, University College London, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution- unit/research/parliament/defeats.html.