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Summary Parliament Recap
- Module
- Component 2
- Institution
- PEARSON (PEARSON)
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PARLIAMENT - CONTEMPORARY EXAMPLES- 92% of Bills passed in 2019-21 were government bills
- Only 1% of amendments suggested from opposition accepted in Public Bill Committees
- 2023- Johnson continues to be grilled for Party gate
- 2020 CoronaVirus Act was passed quickly and lacked efficient scrutiny- gave police
extensive powers to break up demonstration- eg 2020 Sara Everard
- Since 2003 Iraq War- PM has allowed parliament to debate large scale military
commitments
- 2013 Cameron proposed military strikes against Syria but did not happen after a
parliamentary vote/debate
- 2018- May joined American led Syrian air strikes without the approval of Parliament
- January 2019- Mays government was defeated by 432 vote on the Brexit deal offered to
parliament
- 2019 Speaker John Berse stood up against the executive when he stopped May from
reintroducing her un-amended Brexit deal to the HOC
- 2018 Widrush Scandal- Amber Rudd failed to provide satisfactory answers to home affairs
committee-> resigned
- Government accept 40% of recommendations from select committees
- Julian Lewis criticised Johnsons Brexit Policy-> elected as chair of Parliamentary
Intelligence Committee-> had whip withdrawn
- 2021 Johnson faces a rebellion of 98 MPs voting against covid passes
- 2018- 8 Tory MPs voted against Heathrow expansion and defied three line
whip-representing constituents
- March 2023- Sunak Grilled by the Liaison Committee on: Economic issues, Migrant crisis
and Windsor framework
- 2019- Johnson avoided meeting with the liaison Committee so that he could concentrate on
"delivering Brexit"
- Parliamentary back bench committee for business- controls agenda 35 days a year
- 2015 Petitions Committee established
- Royal assent last refused in 1701
- 2011 e-petition on the 1989 Hillsborough disaster had over 100,000 signatures
- PMQs 6 questions from opposition leader
- control part of parliamentary agenda with 20 opposition days dedicated to debates chosen
by opposition
- 2019 GE 80 seats majority weakened oppositions
- 29% of MPs went to private schools compared to 6.4% of population
- 2018- Lord Steel Proposed a debate on the killing of Palestines in Gaza Strip by Israeli
forces-raises profile of issues
- 2008- Clauses in counter terrorism bill to enable terrorist suspects to be held for 42 days
without trial held for 42 days without charge was decisively defeated in the HOL
- The way the HOL voted in favour of a number of amendments to the EU withdrawal bill was
especially important in focusing Mays government on a softer Brexit The HOL defeated the
government 450 times between 1997-201
- HOL repeatedly advocated against compulsory ID cards-> delayed-> scrapped by 2010
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