{"id":65626,"date":"2015-12-17T10:56:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T10:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=de23cb06b8d7564d8bbcc7acafca86eb"},"modified":"2015-12-17T10:56:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T10:56:55","slug":"press-release-government-publishes-strathclyde-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=65626","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Government publishes Strathclyde Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The government has today published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/strathclyde-review-secondary-legislation-and-the-primacy-of-the-house-of-commons\">review by Lord Strathclyde<\/a> on secondary legislation and the relationship between the House of Lords and the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am grateful to Lord Strathclyde for the hard work he has put into this report. I will consider his recommendations carefully before responding in the New Year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/strathclyde-review-statement-by-baroness-stowell\">Lord Strathclyde was asked in October<\/a> to consider how to secure the decisive role of the House of Commons in relation to its primacy on financial matters and secondary legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, he has been working with a panel of parliamentary and legal experts to look at options for providing the House of Commons with a decisive role in secondary legislation. The report details 3 possible options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>option 1 would remove the House of Lords from the statutory instrument procedure altogether \u2013 to take statutory instruments through the House of Commons only<\/li>\n<li>option 2 would seek to retain the present role of the House of Lords but clarify the restrictions on how its powers should be exercised, by codifying them passing a resolution<\/li>\n<li>option 3 is a compromise option would create a new procedure in primary legislation. The new procedure would allow the House of Lords to ask the House of Commons to think again when a disagreement exists but gives the final say to the elected House of Commons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>His report has recommended option 3.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Strathclyde said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">In my review, I have looked carefully at the history and current practice of the House of Lords as it regards secondary legislation and financial matters and I have spoken to a wide range of parliamentarians. I believe that my recommendations strike the right balance between preserving the vital role of the House of Lords in scrutinising legislation, and enabling the elected House of Commons to have a decisive role on statutory instruments.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/strathclyde-review-secondary-legislation-and-the-primacy-of-the-house-of-commons\">review<\/a> is published on GOV.UK<\/li>\n<li>The report suggests 3 options to provide the House of Commons with a decisive role on statutory instruments and recommends the third option of creating a new process, set out in statute, for the Lords to ask the Commons to think again about a statutory instrument while giving the Commons a final say<\/li>\n<li>Lord Strathclyde appointed an unpaid expert panel to produce the report with him. The members of the panel were:\n<ul>\n<li>Jacqy Sharpe, former Clerk of Legislation in the House of Commons and Commons Clerk to the Joint Committee on Conventions in 2006<\/li>\n<li>Sir Stephen Laws, former First Parliamentary Counsel<\/li>\n<li>Sir Michael Pownall, former Clerk of the Parliaments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has published a review on secondary legislation and the relationship between the House of Lords and the House of Commons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}