New Labours constitutional reforms
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- Created on: 22-11-21 10:10
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- New Labours constitutional reforms
- parliamentary reform
- house of lords act 1999
- removed all but 92 hereditary peers - HOL now has mainly life peers and no party majority
- prime ministers question time
- replaced the 2x 15min sessions with 1 x 30 min session, number of questions in each session for leader of opposition doubled from 3-6, leader of 3rd party was given 2 questions
- mp expenses scandal 2009
- the issue of expenses and MPs pay was placed in the hands of an independent commission
- house of lords act 1999
- rights
- freedom of information act 2000
- right for citizens to see info about themselves held by public bodies
- human rights act 1998
- set in place most of the previsions of the european convention on human rights in uk law
- freedom of information act 2000
- electoral reform
- FPTP = egland
- STV = local elections in scotland and northern ireland
- AMS = scottish parliament
- devolution
- scotland act 1998
- ability to raise/lower uk income tax by 1% and in charge of education and healthcare
- wales national assemly established 1999
- not as powerful as scotland - in charge of own education and healthcare
- northern irish assembly
- they have primary legislation in education and healthcare
- scotland act 1998
- judiciary
- uk supreme court created
- they can question the govs decisions (cant take them down)
- uk supreme court created
- liberal criticisms
- not gone far enough
- there's still hereditary peers in the HOL
- still no written constitution
- electoral systems
- monarchy
- conservative criticms
- gone too far
- parliament has lost its sovereignty and EU has it
- HOL was an institution working well
- devolution will lead to the break up of the UK
- parliamentary reform
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