Scrutiny and accountability

• Scrutiny and accountability ensures that laws are fit for purpose - the government should explain and defend their policies
• How MPs can ask questions of government ministers

  • Debates - emergency debates granted at the speakers discretion
  • Backbench and Cabinet Committees
  • Parliamentary questions - written or asked in the chamber during question time
  • PMQs or Question time
• Opposition tends to disagree with the government, scrutinising their policies. This is most often done in debates forcing the government to explain, justify and defend their policies