Parliament
Cards (40)
- Term for legislatures that are divided into two chambers or houses…
- collective name for frontbench MPs who hold ministerial positions…
- MPs for Members of the House of Lords appointed to enforce discipline within the party, ensuring that members vote the way their party wants…
- MP elected by fellow MPs to impartially chair debates, keep order and call MPs to speak in the Commons chamber…
- Frontbench MPs selected by the leader of the official opposition party in the Commons, that presents itself as an alternativve government-in-waiting
- An elected assembly, responsible for passing legislation and granting the government the right to levy taxation…
- A political system where the government is drawn from, and held accountable to, Parliament…
- Where the head of gov/ head of state is directly elected by the people, rather than drawn from, and held accountable to, the legislature…
- Form of gov, associated w the UK, in which Parliament is sovereign, the executive and legislative branches are fused, & power is centralised…
- Where MPs examine, and potentially challenge, the expenditure, administration and policies of the gov…
- In a Parliamentary gov, this is the principle that ministers have obligation to explain or justify their actions to Parliament…
- Gov publications that set out different ideas and options for legislation, designed to provoke comment and outside input to inform development…
- Policy documents produced by the gov setting out detailed proposals for legislation, and form the basis for consultation with interested groups…
- The idea that legislatures should contain a diverse range or representatives, who reflect the varying social characteristics and groups of the people…
- The constitutional convention under which the House of Lords should not delay government bills that were included in the party’s election manifesto…
- Terms used to describe a parliament dominated by a strong executive, which determines the legislative programme & passes virtually all of its bills…
- Name given to peers who inherited their title and membership in the House of Lords. All but 92 were removed by the House of Lords Act (1999)…
- A vote in Parliament…
- The constitutional principle that Parliament has supreme legal authority, able to make or unmake any law, & unable to bind any future Parliament…
- The longstanding constitutional convention that the House of Lords should not oppose the Commons on issues of taxation and public spending…
- Committee that includes the chairs of all select committees and questions the prime minister on public policy twice a year…
- Where MPs vote against the party whip…
- A parliamentary motion, which, if passed, requires the gov to resign, parliament to be dissolved, and a general election to be held…
- MPs that do not hold a ministerial, or shadow ministerial, position…
- Landmark Act that removed the right of the Lords to veto money bills, and limited their ability to block other bills to just 2 years…
- Landmark Act that reduced the House of Lords’ power to block bills from the House of Commons from 2 years to 1 year…
- First established in 1979, these permanent committees scrutinise the government and hold ministers accountable for spending, policies & administration…
- Temporary committees, formed to scrutinise a bill after its second reading, with the power to take written & oral evidence, debate & amend the bill…
- Members of the House of Lords who have been appointed by the Prime Minister, under powers granted by a 1958 Act of Parliament…
- Bills introduced by backbend MPs or members of the House of Lords, rather than by government ministers…
- Committee that scrutinises bills that only effect England, or England and Wales, as part of the 2015 ‘English Votes for English Laws’ (EVEL) reforms…
- Changes to the law made by government ministers, using powers granted by Acts of Parliament (primary legislation)…
- Where MPs and Members of the House of Lords are given the opportunity to question gov ministers about matters for which they are responsible…
- A means of increasing female representation in Parliament by requiring constituency parties to choose between exclusively female candidates...
- The monarch‘s approval that is necessary for a Bill to become an Act of Parliament - by convention, approval is always given, and is now a formality…
- A type of private members’ bill - the names of 20 MPs are drawn at the start of each parliamentary year, and given priority to timetable their bill
- 20 days, allocated per session in the HOC, for the discussion of subjects chosen by opposition parties…
- 2009 committee chaired by Tony Wright - recommended select committee elections, e-petitions, recall elections, a backbench business committee…
- A vote in Parliament where MPs and members of the Lords are not pressured to vote a certain way by party leaders…
- Created in 2010, this committee is allocated 35 days in each session of Parliament, for scheduling debates on subjects suggested by backbench MPs