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Name as many types of committees as you can
Select Committee.
Public bills Committee.
Committee for the whole house.
Liaison committee
Public accounts committee.
What does a select Committee do?
Looks into a particular area of government policy or society and tries to hold government accountable with reports and conferences recorded.
This also means proposing improvements and or new legislation for the cabinet to consider putting forward.
Depending on the purpose, many things might be scrutinised, including appointments and funding
Explain the example of the foreign affairs committee inquiry into Libya.
What does it tell us.
The committee in 2016 found that the U.K’s involvement in intervention in Libya, was ill convinced and the 2010 coalition cabinet was responsible.
This tells us the combing that’d demanded for due processes in U.K select committees can take too long for anyone to be properly held accountable.
In 2016, David Cameron was largely out of the public sphere and the news on Libya could be argued to have faded from public consciousness. People cared about other issues by that point, eg: Brexit.
What’s a liaison committee?
The liaison committee is 2/year.
The chairs of all the committees gather to scrutinise the performance and record of the current prime minister.
The case of the Lord Brownlow refurbishment controversy.
Lord Brownlow is one of the richest men in the U.K.
It came to light around 2021 that there may have been a favors agreement between the PM Boris Johnson and Brownlow over him paying for Johnson’s lavish refurbishment of his Downing Street quarters.
This raised concerns about whether their were favors agreed upon that would compromise the mandate given to Johnson in 2019, and brought up the debate about the rich’s influence over parliament
How can an mp become a chairman of a committee?
15 mps from their own party must endorse them.
They must declare their willingness
The speaker of the house makes the decision
The Guardian reported that researchers from University college London, found that if you were privately educated, you’re …
Twice as likely to become a loyal Conservative party voter and hold more Right wing views on political and social matters.
In 2023, / of Rishi Sunak’s cabinet went to a private school and / went to either Oxford or Cambrige exclusively.
2/3
1/2
