Download or read book The governance of Britain the Government s draft legislative programme written by Great Britain: Office of the Leader of the House of Commons and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-07-11 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Command Paper is the first annual statement setting out a draft legislative programme to be laid before the next Parliament, and which was previously only announced in the Queen's Speech, at the State opening of Parliament. Following on from Cm.7170 (ISBN 9780101717021), a Green Paper listing Government proposals for constitutional reform, both documents represent the aim of Government to promote greater accountability of the government to parliament, parliament to the people, and a strong Cabinet government. It provides advance notification to Parliament and the general public of legislation the Government plans to bring before Parliament. The legislation set out in the document contains proposals for 23 Bills, and that the final programmne will not be exactly the same as the one published here. The document is divided into five chapters: Chapter 1: Why is the Government publishing a draft legislative programme?; Chapter 2: The draft programme; Chapter 3: Draft Bills; Chapter 4: Engagement with the programme; Chapter 5: Summary of the bills in the draft programme - Children in Care Bill; Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill; Climate Change Bill; Constitutional Reform Bill; Coroners Bill; Counter Terrorism Bill; Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill; Crossrail Bill; Education and Skills Bill; Employment Simplification Bill; Energy Bill; European Communities (Finance) Bill; Health and Social Care Bill; Housing and Regeneration Bill; Human Tissues and Embryos Bill; Local Transport Bill; National Insurance Contributions Bill; Pensions Bill; Planning Reform Bill; Planning Gain Supplement Bill; Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill; Sale of Student Loans Bill; Unclaimed Assets Bill.
Download or read book The Government s draft legislative programme written by Great Britain: Office of the Leader of the House of Commons and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-11-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication forms part of a constitutional reform process, set out in the Governance of Britain (Cm. 7170, ISBN 9780101717021), and follows on from a public consultation process in response to The Governance of Britain - the Government's draft legislative programme (Cm.7175, ISBN 9780101717526). The document outlines the consultation process: Chapter 1: Publication and discussion; Chapter 2: Engaging on the draft legislative programme; Chapter 3: The content of the draft legislative programme. The document sets out a summary of the Government's steps in taking the wider view after the publication of the draft legislative programme in July 2007, which will be an an early version of the list of laws the Government aims to introduce, announced traditionally through the Queen's Speech on the state opening of Parliament.
Download or read book Preparing Britain for the Future written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Office of the Leader of the House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 2008-05-14 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of publishing the Draft Legislative Programme is to set out the Government's current proposals for legislation, to be considered by Parliament in its next session, for comment and consultation before the final programme is published in the Queen's Speech towards the end of the year. This Green Paper, "Preparing Britain for the Future - the Draft Legislative Programme 2008-09", sets out the proposed bills and other, non-legislative actions, organised into four themes that reflect the core direction of the Government: economic stability; making the most of your potential; personalisation and improvement of public services; handing power back to people. The 18 major bills to be presented are summarised in chapter three: Economic stability: 1. Banking reform; 2. Saving Gateway; 3. Business rates supplement; 4. Marine and coastal access; 5. Heritage protection; - Making the most of your potential: 6. Education and skills; 7. Equality; 8. Welfare reform. - Personalisation and improvement of public services: 9. Policing and crime reduction; 10. Transport security; 11. Communications data; 12. Law reform, victims and witnesses; 13. Citizenship, immigration and borders; 14. Coroners and death certification; 15. National Health Service reform. - Handing power back to people: 16. Constitutional renewal; 17. Community empowerment, housing and economic regeneration. - Other: 18. Geneva Conventions and United Nations personnel. The Government invites public response to these proposals.
Download or read book Scrutiny of the draft legislative programme written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-01-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, from the Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons, presents the first inquiry into the Governance of Britain, all issued as Command Papers and published in 2007: (Cm. 7170, ISBN 9780101717021; Cm. 7175, ISBN 9780101717526; Cm. 7192, ISBN 9780101719223; Cm. 7210, ISBN 9780101721028; Cm. 7231, ISBN 9780101723121; Cm. 7235, ISBN 9780101723527; Cm. 7239, ISBN 9780101723923). It considers Parliament's role in scrutinising the proposed legislative programme, including arrangements for publication and debate as well as wider consultative strategies. The Committee has set out a number of conclusions and recommendations, including: the Committee believes that the use of plain English in the Draft Legislative Programme is to be commended, and the Government should consider extending the approach to programmed Bills on a trial basis; that the Government's main non-legislative plans should be included in the Draft Legislative Programme, alongside the list of proposed bills, in order that a full programme of government is available for scrutiny; that there is a benefit to be derived from the presentation of the Government's legislative programme as a whole and that the Draft Legislative Programme should be published earlier in the year, preferably before Easter, so that select committee scrutiny and public consultation can be carried out more effectively; that the Draft Legislative Programme should be the subject of a separate debate in Parliament.
Download or read book The Governance of Britain written by Harold Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parliament and the legislative process written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the Constitution and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parliament and the legislative Process : 14th report of session 2003-04, Vol. 2: Evidence
Download or read book The Governance of Britain written by Great Britain. Ministry of Justice and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This White Paper contains a three volume set of documents (Cm. 7342-I/II/III, ISBN 9780101734226) and is part of the Governance of Britain series examining constitutional renewal. In July 2007, the Governance of Britain Green Paper was published (ISBN 9780101717021) which set out the Government's vision and proposals for constitutional renewal, calling on the public, Parliament and other organisations to submit views. The result of the consultation is the publication of this White Paper. Volume 1 covers the substantive issues of constitutional renewal, including: the Government's policy proposals; the Attorney General; judicial appointments; treaties; the civil service; war powers; flag flying and other policies, such as the reform of the Intelligence and Security Committee; a wider review of the Royal Perogative; passports; the National Audit Office; public appointments and Church of England appointments. Volume 2, presents the draft Constitutional Renewal Bill, with Volume 3, setting out an analysis of the consultations. For specific publications on a number of the issues examined here, see Cm. 7239, War Powers & Treaties - ISBN 9780101723923; Cm. 7210, Judicial Appointments, ISBN 9780101721028; Cm. 7192, Role of the Attorney General, ISBN 9780101719223.
Download or read book The Government s Draft Legislative Programme written by Great Britain: Office of the Leader of the House of Commons and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper comprises a summary of consultation responses to the draft programme published in Command paper Cm. 7372 (May 2008, ISBN 9780101737227) as amended by Command paper Cm. 7411 (ISBN 9780101741125) and a response in the form of the changes that have been made to the programme that was announced in the Queen's speech on 3 December 2008 (Unnumbered command paper, ISBN 9780101563123).
Download or read book Post legislative Scrutiny the Government s Approach written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Office of the Leader of the House of Commons and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Command Paper from the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons sets out a process for post-legislative scrutiny by the Government. The main proposal is that after 3 years any law that has been passed will undergo a review by the relevant Government Department and then Parliament to see how effective the law has been. The publication also includes an appendix with a detailed response to the Law Commission's report on Post-legislative scrutiny (Cm. 6945, ISBN 9780101694520).
Download or read book Rights and Responsibilities written by Great Britain. Ministry of Justice and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This green paper launches a public consultation across the UK. The Government intends to involve all parts of society in discussions about the fundamental arguments for and against a new Bill of rights and responsibilities as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the individual components of any such Bill.
Download or read book Strong and Prosperous Communities written by Great Britain: Department for Communities and Local Government and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The government proposes to give local authorities more freedom and powers to meet the needs of their citizens and communities. Local authorities will be encouraged to develop neighbourhood charters setting out local standards and priorities; to manage services at the level of the neighbourhood; to work more closely with neighbourhood policing teams. Local people will receive more information about services and standards, and will be able to question and get a response from local councilors through a new service, Community Call for Action. Executive power will be invested in the leader of the council, and there will be three choices of leadership model: a directly elected mayor, a directly elected executive of councillors, or a leader elected by fellow councillors with a four year mandate. New training opportunities will be provided for councillors. The making of byelaws will be fully devolved to local authorities. The authorities will be encouraged to bring together local partners to help improve services, and to develop a delivery plan - the Local Area Agreement - setting out a single set of priorities for local partners, for the Sustainable Community Strategy that they are already required to prepare. The performance framework for local government will be simplified: there will be about 35 priorities for each area, with a set of some 200 outcome based indicators replacing the many hundreds of indicators currently required by central government. Ambitious efficiency gains will be required as part of the 2007 comprehensive spending review. The second volume shows how these proposals will apply to major local public service areas and cross-cutting issues: community safety; health and well-being; vulnerable people; children and families; climate change; and economic development, housing and planning.
Download or read book Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill written by Bernan and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The draft Bill and White Paper were included in Cm. 7342-I,II,III (ISBN 9780101734226) which follows the Green paper issued in July 2007, Cm. 7170 (ISBN 9780101717021) and various other Governance of Britain papers
Download or read book Draft Defamation Bill written by Great Britain: Ministry of Justice and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This consultation paper sets out the Government's proposals for reform of the law on defamation, aiming to achieve balance between protection of freedom of speech and the protection of reputation. The Government wants to ensure that the threat of libel proceedings is not used to frustrate robust scientific and academic debate, or to impede responsible investigative journalism and the valuable work undertaken by nongovernmental organisations. Issues included in the draft Bill are as follows: a new requirement that a statement must have caused substantial harm in order for it to be defamatory; a new statutory defence of responsible publication on matters of public interest; a statutory defence of truth (replacing the current common law defence of justification); a statutory defence of honest opinion (replacing the current common law defence of fair/honest comment); provisions updating and extending the circumstances in which the defences of absolute and qualified privilege are available; introduction of a single publication rule to prevent an action being brought in relation to publication of the same material by the same publisher after a one year limitation period has passed; action to address libel tourism by ensuring a court will not accept jurisdiction unless satisfied that England and Wales is clearly the most appropriate place to bring an action against someone who is not domiciled in the UK or an EU Member State; removal of the presumption in favour of jury trial, so that the judge would have a discretion to order jury trial where it is in the interests of justice.
Download or read book Legislative Drafting written by G. C. Thornton and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Public Law written by Hilaire Barnett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise, student-friendly guide will help equip students with an understanding of the key aspects of the UK's political and legal systems as well as building an understanding of the relationship between the different branches of the state such as the executive, legislature and judiciary.
Download or read book These Englands written by Arthur Aughey and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term ‘conversation’ is one of today’s jargon terms. This book explores in depth what conversation means in national terms. Its premise is that to be English is to participate in a conversation about the country’s history, politics, culture and society. The conversation changes, of course, but there is also continuity which illustrates a distinct tradition. It is a conversation, the book argues, which requires the plural notion of these Englands rather than the singularity of this England. Englishness, then, is the tone, register and idiom of it subject matters, its anxieties and certainties, differences and commonalities. The book explores the English conversation through historical, political, literary and popular voices and tries to identify the character of contemporary Englishness.
Download or read book Monitoring the Government s Response to Human Rights Judgments written by Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Committee's second annual report monitoring the Government's response to human rights judgments in the European Court of Human Rights. The Committee criticises the Government for its failure to respond to many of its recommendations in its previous report (17th report session 2006-07, HL 128/HC 728, ISBN 9780104011065). The Committee believes the Government should take a consistent and transparent approach across departments to the way in which it responds to declarations of incompatibility and judgments fro the European Court, with the Ministry of Justice co-ordinating the response to adverse judgments. This report also examines a number of issues arising from outstanding judgments: access to artificial insemination for prisoners and their partners; controlling membership of trade union; prisoners' voting rights; investigations into cases involving the use of lethal force; security of tenure for gypsies and travellers, and the corporal punishment of children.
