House of Commons - Communities and Local Government Committee: Post-Legislative Scrutiny of the Greater London Authority Act 2007 and the London Assembly - HC 213

by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee

2013 · The Stationery Office

The Assembly's main job is to hold the Mayor to account. But he can appoint Assembly Members to his cabinet while they continue to sit in the Assembly. The Report asks how the public are supposed to disentangle a situation in which an Assembly Member can hold the executive to account in one area while working on behalf of the executive in another. As a further example of inconsistency, the Report questions why Assembly Members can sit on some GLA London-wide executive bodies but not others. For example, eight Assembly Members can sit on the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority but no Assembly Member is entitled to join the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime. The Mayor must be held to account for the substantial powers invested in him and the London Assembly is the right vehicle to do this, but not in its current form. The Report recommends that the Assembly should be given the power to: call in mayoral decisions; amend the Mayor's capital budgets as it can his revenue budgets; reject the Mayor's Police and Crime Plan on the same basis as it can other mayoral strategies; review and, if necessary, reject the Mayor's appointment of any Deputy Mayor. In addition Assembly members who join the Mayor's cabinet or sit on GLA boards should be required to give up their Assembly membership and the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority should be reconstituted along the lines of the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime

Report of the Leader's Group on Working Practices

by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Leader's Group on Working Practices

2011 · The Stationery Office

The report of the Leader's Group examining the working practices of the House of Lords and the operation of self-regulation was published today (Tuesday 26 April). Recommendations in the report include changes to enable the Lords better to fulfil its core functions of scrutinising government, testing out and reviewing legislation, and debating important issues. The report also suggests ways in which the House of Lords could make the most of its unique strengths and resources, including its Members' skills and experience.

The Parliamentary Debates (official Report).

by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons

1926

Contains the 4th session of the 28th Parliament through the 1st session of the 48th Parliament.

Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).

by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons

1929

Contains the 4th session of the 28th Parliament through the session of the Parliament.