This report builds on work undertaken in the previous Parliament. It contains three sets of recommendations which share a common aim of improving the effectiven

In this report the Procedure Committee invites the House to expand the tabling of explanatory statements on amendments to all bills at both Committee and Report

In October 2010 the Committee in response to a report by its predecessor committee began a trial exercise in monitoring unsatisfactory and late answers to writt

The Standing Orders and the practice of the House enable Ministers to make written and oral statements to the House on matters of public importance. That facili