Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee
Government by Diktat: A call to return power to Parliament
20th Report of Session 2021-22 - published 24 November 2021 - HL Paper 105
Contents
Further collaboration with the DPRRC
Chapter 2: Shared concerns of the SLSC and the DPRRC about primary legislation
Threshold between primary and secondary legislation
Need to re-set the balance between Parliament and the government
Overlapping interests of the SLSC and the DPRRC
Re-setting the balance and the principles of parliamentary democracy
Secondary legislation and skeleton bills and clauses
Further inquiry on re-setting the balance of power between Parliament and the government
Legislative sub-delegation of power
Chapter 3: Issues of concern to the SLSC about secondary legislation
Secondary legislation and guidance
Use of guidance “to amplify legislation”
Quality of legislation and supporting information
Senior responsible owners (SROs)
Restricting parliamentary scrutiny
Looking ahead: volume and flow of statutory instruments
Summary of conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: Extracts from executive summaries of two SLSC reports
Appendix 2: List of Members (and length of parliamentary experience) and Members’ interests
Evidence is published online at https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/2063/default/.
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.