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Politics 6 : Parliament - Coggle Diagram
Politics 6 : Parliament
UK Parliament
Overview
No strict operation between legislative and executive which means majority of parliament backs government
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House of Commons
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Back benchers - Can be more independent bu still show party loyalty. Includes members of smaller parties
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Party whips - appointed by party to maintain party discipline/ loyalty and help communication between benches. Currently 16 whips and Simon Hart is chief whip for tories
Speaker - Elected by other MPs who organises parliamentary business and maintains order (Sir Lindsay Hoyle since 2019)
650 MPs from constituencies with 60,000-80,000 voters
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House of Lords
Hereditary peers - 92 members who have inherited their seats (1999 HoL Act). When member dies successor is elected by remaining peers based on party affiliation
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Life peers - appointed by monarch but has been passed to PM as a role - title dies with them - can be political or not
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Lord Lebedev who was Evening Standard owner and Standard gave a lot of support to Johnson for Mayor elections also a Russian-born son of KGB agent
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Representation
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cross benchers have more freedom to speak and come from non-political background so have wider range of experience
Public Bills
- HoC 1st reading - Bill is introduced and outlined
- HoC 2nd reading - Bill detailed,questioned, debated, voted
- HoC Committee stage - 16-50 MPs go over and inspect and perfect bill with witnesses and reports
- Report stage - Committee reports back to HoC (with admendments)
- HoC 3rd reading - Final version of bill debated and voted
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- HoL Committee stage - considered as a house
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- HoL 3rd reading - when is sent back to commons
- Considerations and amendments - 'parliamentary ping pong'
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Legislation
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Private Members Bills
Introduced through Ballot, 10 min rule or Presentation
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Successful Acts
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Voyerism Act 2019 - (tried to cover crime of up skirting) Introduced by Gine Martin but was objected leading to outcry then later introduced as gov bill and passed easily
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Committees
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The Liason Committee
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Boris Johnson had one just before his resignation when he was strongly scrutinised after prospering it 3 times
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Role of Opposition
Leader of opposition receives PM salary and takes part in all official ceremonies and can ask up to 6 questions in PM question time
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