Select Committee on the Constitution
The Legislative Process: The Passage of Bills Through Parliament
24th Report of Session 2017-19 - published 8 July 2019 - HL Paper 393
Contents
Chapter 2: Bill scrutiny processes
Effectiveness of Parliament’s scrutiny of bills
Figure 1: The Legislative Process
Timetabling in the Commons and its consequences for the Lords
Box 1: Programming in the House of Commons
Self-regulation in the House of Lords
Intervals between stages of a bill
Table 1: Minimum intervals between the stages of a bill in each House
Ping-pong and Reasons Committees
Select committee involvement in the legislative process
Chapter 3: Information accompanying bills
Explanatory statements on amendments
Chapter 4: Public understanding and engagement
Public understanding of the legislative process
Summary of conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Evidence is published online at https://www.parliament.uk/legislativeprocess-inquiry and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.