The Committee for Privileges has published its reports. It has concluded that the House does have the power to suspend members for a period not longer than the remainder of a Parliament and in a separate report recommends that Lords Truscott and Taylor of Blackburn be suspended until the end of the current session of Parliament. …
Clearly, the issue of expenses is one that is attracting widespread media attention and is having some remarkable resonance with the public. This is not one of those issues that is confined to the Westminster world. The focus is primarily on the Commons in respect of expenses, though not exclusively so. There is clearly a case…
Two relatively straightforward, and easy, questions this week. How many members of the House of Lords are former Foreign Secretaries? Who are they? How many members of the House of Lords are former Chancellors of the Exchequer? Who are they?
My post on the banning of display cabinets for cigarettes attracted the largest number of comments we have had since starting the blog. As Croft commented, if the plan was ‘to show the readers what it is like to be intensely lobbied on a hot issue then I think it is a roaring success’. The responses do…
Following my earlier posts, and readers’ responses, on public consultations by Government, I put down a number of Parliamentary Questions. I have also now secured a slot for a Question for Short Debate (QSD): “to ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to ensure that public consultations by Government Departments follow best practice”. Admittedly,…
