On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 02:50:04PM +0000, Juliet Samuel wrote:
> Parliament releases an annual report detailing various stats about volume
> and number of legislative acts (as well as gender, ethnic, background makeup
> of parliament etc). As far as I know it's only available in pdf - I will try
> to find the link and email it when I have a moment.
>
> The key thing in the latest report, as you say Adam, is volume - the number
> of acts in the last 13 years is actually lower, but the number of pages in
> the acts and use of statutory instruments has gone up massively.
And codes of practice issued persuant to Section X of Bill Y.
Yet compare the volume of Bills with the amount of scrutiny each
receives.
(Would it be great for someone to calculate
"this Bill received X hours in the chambers, Y in Select Committee"
"it ping-ponged Z times (as did N other Bills in that Parliament)"
a total of 11seconds per clause!)
--
``The Minister's office rang back saying that he would be delighted
to see me for tea. That evening I went home, very excited, and
told my partner, "I'm going to see the Minister for tea."
He replied, "There's a Minister for Tea?"''
-- (Chris Bryant, MP:
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?gid=2008-10-23a.149.1)
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