The Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
The House of Lords appoints the Committee each session
with the terms of reference "to report whether the provisions
of any bill inappropriately delegate legislative power, or whether
they subject the exercise of legislative power to an inappropriate
degree of parliamentary scrutiny; to report on documents and draft
orders laid before Parliament under sections 14 and 18 of the
Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006; and to perform, in
respect of such draft orders, and in respect of subordinate provisions
orders made or proposed to be made under the Regulatory Reform
Act 2001, the functions performed in respect of other instruments
and draft instruments by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments".
Membership
The members of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory
Reform Committee are:
The Lord Armstrong of Ilminster GCB CVO
Rt Hon. the Lord Boyd of Duncansby PC QC
The Lord Brett
The Viscount Eccles CBE
The Lord Faulkner of Worcester
The Baroness Fritchie DBE
The Baroness Gardner of Parkes
The Lord Goodhart QC (Chairman)
The Lord Razzall CBE
The Lord Shaw of Northstead DL
Registered interests
Members' registered interests may be examined in
the online Register of Lords' Interests at www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldreg.htm.
The Register may also be inspected in the House of Lords Record
Office and is available for purchase from the Stationery Office.
Publications
The Committee's reports are published by the Stationery
Office by Order of the House in hard copy and on the internet
at www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/dprr.cfm.
General information
General information about the House of Lords and
its Committees, including guidance to witnesses, details of current
inquiries and forthcoming meetings is on the internet at
www.parliament.uk/about_lords/about_lords.cfm.
Contacts for the Delegated Powers and Regulatory
Reform Committee
Any query about the Committee or its work should
be directed to the Clerk of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory
Reform Committee, Delegated Legislation Office, House of Lords,
London, SW1A 0PW. The telephone number is 020-7219 3103 and the
fax number is 020-7219 2571. The Committee's email address is
dprr@parliament.uk.
History
In February 1992, the Select Committee on the Committee
work of the House, under the chairmanship of Earl Jellicoe, noted
that "in recent years there has been considerable disquiet
over the problem of wide and sometimes ill-defined order-making
powers which give Ministers unlimited discretion" (Session
1991-92, HL Paper 35-I, paragraph 133). The Committee recommended
setting up a delegated powers scrutiny committee which would,
it suggested, "be well suited to the revising function of
the House". As a result, the Select Committee on the Scrutiny
of Delegated Powers was appointed experimentally in the following
session. It was established as a sessional committee from the
beginning of Session 1994-95. After the enactment of the Deregulation
and Contracting Out Act 1994, the Committee was given the additional
role of scrutinising deregulation proposals under that Act and
the Committee became the Select Committee on Delegated Powers
and Deregulation. In April 2001, the Regulatory Reform Act 2001
expanded the order-making power to include regulatory reform and
the Committee, renamed the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform
Committee, took on the scrutiny of regulatory reform proposals
under that Act. The Committee now scrutinises legislative reform
orders under the successor to the 2001 Act, the Legislative and
Regulatory Reform Act 2006.
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