different types of bills

• what does the joint committee do?

  scrutinise the statutory instruments to make sure that their actions are legal and not exceeding the powers specified in the parent act
• MPs and Lords can and do draft their own bills using what?

  private member bills
• what are the types of private member bills?

  • ballot bills
  • ten minute rule bills
  • presentation bills
• what does a private member bill being passed depend on?

  • it being uncontroversial
  • the MP being one of the 20 chosen
  • having government support
• what is a ballot bill? what is an example?

  • have the best chance of becoming law
  • backbench MPs can enter a ballot where 20 are drawn
  • they are bills that government may not have had time for when debating

  Assaults on emergency workers act 2018
• what is a ten minute rule bill? what is an example?

  • policy aspirations put into legislative language to secure 10 minutes during ‘prime time’ which is after PMQs
  • important as an opportunity for backbenchers to raise constituency issues
  • whips decide the slots

  
  

  Guardianship act 2017
• what is a presentation bill? what is an example?

  • formally represented during a friday sitting and only after all of the ballot bills have been presented
  • no debate
  • more for raising awareness

  European union withdrawal act