House of Commons - Improving the effectiveness of parliamentary scrutiny: Various items

Procedure Committee - Second Report
Improving the effectiveness of parliamentary scrutiny: Various items

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 2 March 2011.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

2 Select Committee amendments

Previous Committee report

Government response

Our view

Procedure in committee

Marking select committee amendments

Priority in selection for decision or debate

Recommendations

3 Explanatory statements on amendments to bills

The Committee's report

Developments in this Parliament

Our recommendations

4 Written parliamentary questions

Background

Number of questions

Value of parliamentary questions

Options for change

Quotas

Deadlines

Quotas and deadlines combined

The Committee's recommendations

Answers to written parliamentary questions

5 Conclusions

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

List of printed written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Written Evidence