Structure of HOC

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  • Hosur of commons elected as most powerful chanber of parliament and consists of 650 MPs
  • Structure of HOC
    650 MPs
    front bench MP- government ministers, senior and junior plus a leading spokesperson
    Backbench Mps
    select commitees
    legislative commitees
    party whips- senior MPs who seek to persuade backbench in the their own party
    the speaker- presides over disputes on house of common
  • Select committee is a permanent committee of back bench mp that scrutinise the work of government departments
  • Public bill commitee is refers to the legislative committee which are temporary committees which are established to give line by line scrutiny