Earlier this year, I was asked to do a post on the role of ministers in the Lords. Normally the number of ministers sitting in the Lords is just over twenty, representing approximately twenty per cent of ministers. They usually include two Cabinet members (the Leader of the House and now the Chief Whip –…
We have had some interesting differences of opinion expressed in evidence to the Joint Committee on the Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill. These have included differences between the parliamentary authorities and the Government over demonstrations in Parliament Square. When the officials of both Houses appeared before the Committee, they expressed concern over both access to the…
Much of the evidence we have taken in the Joint Committee on the Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill has tended to be useful and rather worthy. There has been some disagreement, as for example over whether Parliament’s powers in relation to a decision to commit troops to action should be vested in statute or a parliamentary…
