Parliamentary procedure regulates the proceedings of the House and can be divided up into four main sections. 1. Practice which is the general understanding established over the centuries and does not ...

A committee is generally appointed for each public bill that goes through the House of Commons. Depending on its complexity, the consideration of a bill can take a few minutes to a few months. Members ...

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Parliament continues to develop the nation's system of courts nearly 700 years after the first Justices of the Peace were appointed by statute. The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, for ...

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This case study is the result of a partnership between the Parliamentary Archives, Parliamentary Outreach and Norfolk Record Office. It is part of the People and Parliament: Connecting with ...

Devolution in the UK has created a national Parliament in Scotland, a Welsh Parliament - or Senedd Cymru - and a national Assembly in Northern Ireland. This process transfers varying levels of power ...

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust was formed in 1847, after five homes and gardens in Stratford-upon-Avon linked to Shakespeare were purchased as a national memorial to the Bard. The trustees of The ...

In February 1769 Wilkes was expelled from the House of Commons on grounds of seditious and obscene libels. Despite being in prison Wilkes was subsequently returned unopposed for Middlesex at two ...

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Although the government had an inklings of a plot, the first clear intelligence came with the anonymous warning given to a Catholic nobleman, Lord Monteagle, that he should not attend the opening of ...