Monitoring written Parliamentary questions
Title | Monitoring written Parliamentary questions PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee |
Publisher | Stationery Office |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2013-05-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780215057372 |
In October 2010 the Committee in response to a report by its predecessor committee began a trial exercise in monitoring unsatisfactory and late answers to written Parliamentary questions. With just over 50 complaints from Members in response to the exercise of which half were followed up. This resulted in answers for Members on a number of occasions in circumstances where they would otherwise have found difficult or impossible to follow up on an inadequate response. The exercise will now come to an end and be put on a more permanent footing.In consideration of a memorandum from the Leader of the House providing statistics on the time taken to respond to WPQs in 2010-12, the committee has sought explanations from Ministers in charge of poorly performing departments for the level of performance in the memorandum and what steps are being taken to improve these levels. The Department for Education had a particularly poor performance and evidence was taken from the Parliamentary Under Secretary and a senior official in the Department which the Committee found unsatisfactory with and so a follow up session with the Permanent Secretary and Secretary of State was undertaken. The Committee will continue its interest in the answering performance of this Department and hold it to further account should its performance not improve markedly.
Written Parliamentary Questions
Title | Written Parliamentary Questions PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Procedure |
Publisher | |
Pages | 29 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Interpellation |
ISBN | 9781787327672 |
Monitoring of Written Parliamentary Questions
Title | Monitoring of Written Parliamentary Questions PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Procedure |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Interpellation |
ISBN | 9781785846205 |
Written Parliamentary questions
Title | Written Parliamentary questions PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Procedure Committee |
Publisher | Stationery Office |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 2014-02-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780215068743 |
Overall performance in timeliness of answering of written Parliamentary questions has improved since 2010-12, from 69% to 76% in respect of ordinary written questions answered within a working week of tabling and from 69% to 73% in respect of named day questions answered on the named day. The performance of certain departments, however, remains poor, and those with whom the Committee has been in correspondence this year should consider themselves to be "on notice" that if the improvements which have been promised do not materialise when the statistics for 2013-14 are examined, the Committee will be considering very carefully what action, possibly including further oral evidence sessions, it is necessary to take.
Monitoring of Written Parliamentary Questions
Title | Monitoring of Written Parliamentary Questions PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Procedure |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
HC 1121 - Matters for the Procedure Committee in the 2015 Parliament
Title | HC 1121 - Matters for the Procedure Committee in the 2015 Parliament PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Procedure |
Publisher | The Stationery Office |
Pages | 25 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0215084241 |
European E-Democracy in Practice
Title | European E-Democracy in Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Leonhard Hennen |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2019-11-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3030271846 |
This open access book explores how digital tools and social media technologies can contribute to better participation and involvement of EU citizens in European politics. By analyzing selected representative e-participation projects at the local, national and European governmental levels, it identifies the preconditions, best practices and shortcomings of e-participation practices in connection with EU decision-making procedures and institutions. The book features case studies on parliamentary monitoring, e-voting practices, and e-publics, and offers recommendations for improving the integration of e-democracy in European politics and governance. Accordingly, it will appeal to scholars as well as practitioners interested in identifying suitable e-participation tools for European institutions and thus helps to reduce the EU’s current democratic deficit. This book is a continuation of the book “Electronic Democracy in Europe” published by Springer.