parlimentary law making

• types of bills - public - private - back benchers
• public bill - affects all
• private bill - comapnies or individuals only
• back benchers - individual proposed bill often from other aprty - 10 min rule
• process of making law - green paper - white paper - hoc - 1st reading - 2nd reading - committe - report - 3rd reading - bill - royal assent
• green paper - gov invites different ideas onto the bill
• white paper - proposes bill might contain draft
• 1st reading - aims read out
• 2nd reading - vote on if continuing
• commitee stage - scruitinise the report and each clause
• report stage - commitee reports back to hoc
• 3rd reading - final vote
• same steps repeat in hol
• royal assent - monarch has to approve the bill
• ping pong - bill going back and forth between the hol and hoc
• pro - hol limited
• con - hol power
• pro - democratic
• pro - report and commitee stage
• pro - can delegate to save time
• con - takes ages
• con - expensive
• con - doesn't have to follow law commission advice