Does Parliament Check Government

This is an extremely detailed analysis of whether the UK Parliament is an effective check on government and its powers, looking at the processes of scrutiny including the importance of the legislative process, opportunities for backbenchers and Prime Ministers Questions and the nature of the effective scrutiny that takes place, as well as the scrutiny and composition of the House of Lords.

This document also looks at the importance of Parliamentary arithmetic and how the composition of the Commons impacts the level and detail of scrutiny of the government, again impacted by various factors including role of the whips and desire for MPs to ‘climb the greasy pole’.

This document has extremely well detailed paragraphs with headings of each point and what each paragraph entails, with another paragraph for a compatible counter argument, and then a quick interim judgement.