Download or read book The Speaker s Committee first report 2007 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Speaker's Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-08-06 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee's report sets out its comments on the findings of the 11th report of the Committee on Standards in Public LIfe (Cm. 7006, ISBN 9780101700627) on its review of the mandate, governance and accountability of the Electoral Commission. The Speaker's Committee has restricted its comments to recommendations directly relating to itself, or in relation to which it has a specific policy interest.
Download or read book The Speaker s Committee written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Speaker's Committee 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: On cover & title page: Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000
Download or read book The Speaker s Committee third report 2007 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Speaker's Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-02-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cover & title page: Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000
Download or read book The Speaker s Committee second report 2007 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Speaker's Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-08-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this report is to place in the public domain the NAO report into the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of the Electoral Commission in its use of resources (the NAO report being reproduced as an appendix). The NAO report focused on the issue of electoral registration and made eight recommendations to the Electoral Commission on the use of its new powers under the Electoral Administration Act 2006 to request information from electoral registration officers; on improving the completeness and accuracy of electoral registers; and on performance measurement.
Download or read book Election of the Speaker and of the Deputy Speakers written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-02-03 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The election of the Speaker in 2009 was the first to be held under the new rules recommended by the Procedure Committee in 2000. The Committee reports satisfaction that it met the test of enabling the House to reach its decision in a fair and transparent way, and the use of the secret ballot was a particular success. Some improvements, though, are recommended: names of sponsors should be published; the minimum number of sponsors should be increased to 15; hustings should be welcomed but should continue to be run by outside organisations; the time allowed for each round of voting should be reduced to 20 minutes to speed up the process. The Committee has also devised a detailed procedure for electing Deputy Speakers reflecting that used for the Speaker, including the secret ballot, a minimum number of sponsors and publication of the names of those sponsors. Candidates should submit a brief statement along with their nomination form instead of speeches or hustings. The existing conventions would continue: the four Deputy Speakers should be drawn equally from the Government and opposition side of the House; there should be at least one man and at least one woman on the team.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
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Download or read book Revitalising the Chamber 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 2007-06-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report makes recommendations to improve the process by which Members learn and develop their careers. If implemented the recommendations would mean: extending the period between a General Election and the date of first sitting, to allow for a longer period of induction; allocating part of most question times to topical questions; extra debates on topical matters on a weekly basis; shorter debates on most general issues and some legislation; a weekly half-hour slot for debating Select Committee Reports; more comprehensible motions; shorter speeches; greater flexibility on time limits on speeches; and the reintroduction, on a trial basis, of Private Members' Motions in Westminster Hall.
Download or read book Public petitions and early day motions written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Petitions and Early Day Motions (EDMs) are both processes that are used by Members of Parliament to bring to the attention of the House of Commons the concerns of particular groups of the population. EDMS are frequently drafted by groups or organizations outside the House and then tabled by Members as demonstrations of support for them. Both procedures allow the public to engage with Parliament, either directly, by signing a Petition, or indirectly, by urging their Member of Parliament to add his or her name to an EDM. This report examines the current procedures that govern them, whether they are appropriate and effective and how well they meet the demands which Members wish to make of them. For Public Petitions the Committee recommends: a requirement on the Government to respond formally to all petitions within two months of their presentation; publication of the texts of petitions and responses to them in Hansard; easier access to petitions on the parliamentary website and opportunities for debates on petitions in Westminster Hall. For Early Day Motions, the Committee recommends the continuation of the present arrangements for the printing of EDMs, but there should be further consideration of e-tabling and that the Modernisation Committee should consider the introduction of a separate procedure to allow substantive motions tabled by backbenchers to be debated.
Download or read book African Parliamentary Reform written by Frederick Stapenhurst and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most far-reaching and innovative parliamentary reform is occurring in Africa. While these reforms are not yet widespread across the continent, parliaments in some African countries are asserting their independence as policymakers, as overseers of government and as the guardian of citizens’ rights and needs. This book presents recent reforms in selected African parliaments – Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Benin, Zambia, Ethiopia, Liberia and Nigeria. It also presents cross-cutting innovations by African parliaments – in fighting corruption, in providing development to constituents and in combatting climate change. Many of the chapters are authored by African MPs themselves, making this a book ‘by MPs for MPs’, as well as being of interest to students and scholars of African Politics, and to those international institutions that support parliamentary development. African Parliamentary Reform is a joint initiative by the World Bank Institute, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and the Parliamentary Centre (Africa).
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Download or read book Accountability to the House of Commons of secretaries of state in the House of Lords written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accountability to the House of Commons of secretaries of state in the House of Lords : Third report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal minutes and written Evidence
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Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House".
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
