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Governance of Parliament

How does Parliament govern itself? Who controls the business and procedures in both Houses? Which individuals and bodies provide leadership, and how are their powers distributed? Do MPs and Peers have sufficient resources to perform their legislative and scrutiny functions?

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Blog / Demands to recall the House of Commons over this summer’s exams fiasco reinforce the case for taking the process out of government hands

In a crisis the House of Commons is hamstrung if it is in recess, for MPs are not masters of their own House. While any MP can make representations to the government and the House of Commons Speaker to request a recall, under Standing Orders only a formal request from ministers to the Speaker can actually trigger one.

Blog / How Jersey's legislature has risen to the Covid-19 challenge

Jersey's States Assembly was the first legislature in the Commonwealth to hold a full virtual meeting, with all members able to participate, in order to get around the limitations imposed by the Covid-19 crisis. Mark Egan, Greffier of the States, describes how this was achieved and suggests that some of the States Assembly's Covid-19 innovations may stick.

Blog / Two days in the Commons Chamber that took Churchill to No.10: the Norway Debate of May 1940

The Coronavirus crisis is spotlighting the importance of the House of Commons Chamber in our democratic life. 7-8 May marks 80 years since the Norway Debate, the event which demonstrated this most famously. Over two days of debate, MPs' performances in the Chamber and a decision to force a division had historic consequences.