Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation
14 June 2012
The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee will continue its scrutiny of the processes by which Parliament and Government can ensure standards in the drafting of legislation.
- Parliament TV: Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation
- Inquiry: Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation
Witnesses
Thursday 14 June 2012 at 10am in the Wilson Room, Portcullis House
At 10.00 am:
- Richard Heaton, First Parliamentary Counsel, and
- David Cook, Second Parliamentary Counsel
This is the second session in the Committee’s inquiry into Ensuring Standards in the Quality of Legislation.
Objectives
The objectives of this session with First Parliamentary Counsel are to explain the role of the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel in the preparation and drafting of legislation; to consider whether legislation needs to be drafted in a clearer and more concise manner; to consider the interaction of the Office of Parliamentary Counsel with Departments, Bill teams and the Law Commission; to discuss the increasing volume of individual Acts, why this has occurred, and what solutions the Office for Parliamentary Counsel proposes; and to analyse whether constitutional bills should be treated differently to other bills.