CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Summary
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Government formation
Fixed-term Parliaments and government-formation
Time for government formation
The role of the incumbent Prime Minister
The role of the civil service
The role of the monarch
Chapter 3: The Government and its programme
Proposal for a prime ministerial investiture
vote
Proposal for Commons approval of coalition
agreements
Chapter 4: Operation of Government and Parliament
under coalition
Collective ministerial responsibility
Agreements to differ
Departures from collective responsibility
in the current Parliament
Cabinet committees and the Quad
Ministerial appointments
The House of Lords
The House of Lords and the coalition programme
Chapter 5: End of the Parliament
Pre-election contact between parties
and civil service
The election campaign
Fixed-term Parliaments and the "wash
up"
Access to papers of a previous administration
Chapter 6: Summary of conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of members and declaration
of interest
Appendix 2: List of witnesses
Appendix 3: Call for evidence
Evidence is published online at www.parliament.uk/hlconstitution
and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (0207
219 5314).
References in the footnotes to the report are as
follows:
Q refers to a question in oral evidence;
witness names without a question reference refer
to written evidence.
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