The Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
The Committee is appointed by the House of Lords
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".
Current membership
The members of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory
Reform Committee are:
Lord Armstrong of Ilminster GCB CVO
Lord Blackwell
Rt Hon. the Lord Boyd of Duncansby PC QC
Rt Hon. the Lord Butler of Brockwell
Viscount Eccles CBE
Lord Goodhart QC (Chairman)
Lord Haskel
Rt Hon. the Lord Mayhew of Twysden QC DL
Lord Razzall CBE
Lord Soley
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. All publications of the Committee
are 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.
Background Note
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
the establishment of 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 (permanent) committee
from the beginning of Session 1994-95. The Committee also has
responsibility for scrutinising 'legislative reform orders' under
the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006.
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