Peter Riddell on the progress of a Parliamentary reform
Peter Riddell, 21 November 1985
The New Select Committees: A Study of the 1979 Reforms
edited by Gavin Drewry.
Oxford, 410 pp., £25, September 1985,9780198227854 Show More
edited by Gavin Drewry.
Oxford, 410 pp., £25, September 1985,
Commons Select Committees: Catalysts for Progress?
edited by Dermot Englefield.
Longman, 288 pp., £15, May 1984,0 582 90260 6 Show More
edited by Dermot Englefield.
Longman, 288 pp., £15, May 1984,
British Government and the Constitution: Text, Cases and Materials
by Colin Turpin.
Weidenfeld, 476 pp., £25, September 1985,0 297 78651 2 Show More
by Colin Turpin.
Weidenfeld, 476 pp., £25, September 1985,
Parliament in the 1980s
edited by Philip Norton.
Blackwell, 208 pp., £19.50, July 1985,0 631 14056 5 Show More
edited by Philip Norton.
Blackwell, 208 pp., £19.50, July 1985,
“... The new select committee system was launched in 1979 with a characteristic flourish by Norman St John Stevas, then Leader of the House of Commons. MPs were ‘embarking upon a series of changes that could constitute the most important Parliamentary reforms of the century’. The proposals were ‘intended to redress the balance of power’ – as between Parliament and the executive – ‘to enable the House of Commons to do more efficiently the job it has been elected to do ... ”
