Research Briefing
House of Lords: Statistical Profile of Membership
This House of Lords Library briefing presents a range of information about the membership of the House of Lords as the House was composed on Friday 11 March 2016.
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Research Briefing
The Sovereign’s Ceremonial and Formal Role in Parliament Today
On 9 September 2015, Queen Elizabeth II became the longest reigning sovereign in British history. This House of Lords Library briefing focuses on the Sovereign as part of the constitution of Parliament. It captures key aspects of the role of the Sovereign as it relates, in practice, to Parliament today, with an emphasis on the House of Lords. It does this through addressing a selection of the ceremonial and formal roles of the Sovereign: the State Opening of Parliament and its prorogation and dissolution; the calling of a new Parliament, in light of the Fixed-term Parliament Act 2011; Royal Commissions and royal assent; and Queen’s consent. The briefing also addresses a number of aspects of the Sovereign’s communications and relationship with Parliament more broadly, through Addresses and messages and the Palace of Westminster itself. It provides facts and figures relating to Queen Elizabeth II including: the number of Acts that have received Royal Assent during her reign, Addresses given by the Queen to both Houses in Westminster Hall, and the wording of Queen Elizabeth II’s first message to Parliament on her accession to the throne in 1952.
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Research Briefing
Size of the House of Lords
This Library Note provides statistics and background information on the changing size of the House of Lords since the 1992–93 session alongside commentary and debates on the subject of the House’s size over recent years.
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Research Briefing
Chairman of Committees: Proposed Changes
This Lords Library briefing provides information on the recently proposed changes to the post of Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords, put forward by the Leader’s Group on Governance.
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Research Briefing
Committee Procedures for Public Bills: Select Committees
Public bills may be committed to a select committee when it is considered that they require detailed investigation or when the hearing of evidence is considered necessary on the bill’s provisions. The most recent occasion on which a Government bill was referred to a select committee was the Constitutional Reform Bill in 2004.
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Research Briefing
Delegated Legislation in the House of Lords since 1997
This Lords Library briefing provides an overview of delegated legislation in the House of Lords since 1997.
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Research Briefing
Strathclyde Review: Secondary Legislation and the Primacy of the House of Commons
This Lords Library briefing provides a short summary of the recommendations of the Strathclyde Review and a snapshot of initial reaction to it.
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Research Briefing
Tabling of Lords Parliamentary Questions
This In Focus provides a briefing on the subject of tabling parliamentary questions in the House of Lords. It includes information on the procedure for tabling oral parliamentary questions, as well as statistics on parliamentary questions from the 2014–15 and 2013–14 parliamentary sessions.
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Research Briefing
Interception of Communications: The Wilson Doctrine
This In Focus provides a briefing on the background and current status of the Wilson Doctrine, which concerns the interception of parliamentarians’ communications.
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Research Briefing
Delegated Legislation in the House of Lords
This In Focus provides statistics and information about delegated legislation in the House of Lords.
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Research Briefing
Digital Democracy: Political Participation and Citizen Engagement through the Internet
This Library Note provides an overview of developments around citizens’ political engagement and participation through the internet. It has been written in light of the 2015 'Open Up' report by the Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy, which set five key targets for the House of Commons and made a number of recommendations to the administration and MPs in how to meet them. Reference to the report and its recommendations are referred to within.
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Research Briefing
Select Committees in the House of Lords
This Note considers committees in the House of Lords which deal with public matters.
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Research Briefing
Succession to Peerages Bill [HL]
This In Focus briefing provides background information in advance of the second reading of the Succession to Peerages Bill [HL] in the House of Lords on 11 September 2015.
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Research Briefing
The Governance and Administration of the House of Lords
This Note sets out how the House of Lords is structured, governed and managed, including joint working with the House of Commons.
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Research Briefing
Customs and Traditions in the House of Lords
This Lords Library briefing can now be found at: http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/LLN-2017-0050.
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