Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee
Response to the Strathclyde Review: Effective parliamentary scrutiny of secondary legislation
Report - published 14 April 2016 - HL Paper 128
Contents
Events prompting the Strathclyde Review
Electoral Registration and Administration Order
Previous reports on parliamentary scrutiny of secondary
legislation
Inquiry by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee
Strathclyde options not a definitive list
Chapter 2: Context of the inquiry
Parliamentary scrutiny of secondary legislation
Affirmative and negative procedure
What the Government can do if an instrument is rejected
Additional scrutiny procedures
Financial instruments and Commons-only procedure
Scrutiny procedures in the two Houses
Procedure in the House of Lords
Procedure in the House of Commons
Comments on the different level of scrutiny in the two Houses
Joint Committee on Conventions of the UK Parliament
Number of defeats on secondary legislation in the Lords
Lords convention on secondary legislation: “stretched to
breaking point”?
The boundary between primary and secondary legislation
Instruments with a financial implication
Chapter 3: The Strathclyde options
Wider issues relating to parliamentary scrutiny of secondary legislation
Chapter 5: List of Conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and Declarations of Interest
Evidence is published online at http:///www.parliament.uk/slsc-strathclyde-review and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence