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Political and Constitutional Reform Committee - publications

Here you can browse documents of the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee arranged with the most recently published document at the top of each section.

Publications from previous session are available.

Publications from previous sessions

Reports

Prospects for codifying the relationship between central and local governmentHC 656 | Published 12 February 2013
Written evidence submitted by Andrew North, Chief Executive, Cheltenham Borough Council after the Report had been agreed.
3rd Report - Prospects for codifying the relationship between central and local government - Volume I | PDF version 3rd Report - Prospects for codifying the relationship between central and local government - Volume I ()HC 656-I | Published 29 January 2013 | Purchase title 3rd Report - Prospects for codifying the relationship between central and local government - Volume I
Volume I: Report and Appendix, together with formal minutes
3rd Report - Prospects for codifying the relationship between central and local government - Volume IV | PDF version 3rd Report - Prospects for codifying the relationship between central and local government - Volume IV ()Published 29 January 2013
Volume IV: additional written evidence
3rd Report - Prospects for codifying the relationship between central and local government - Volume II | PDF version 3rd Report - Prospects for codifying the relationship between central and local government - Volume II ()HC 656-II | Published 29 January 2013 | Purchase title 3rd Report - Prospects for codifying the relationship between central and local government - Volume II
Volume II: oral evidence
3rd Report - Prospects for codifying the relationship between central and local government - Volume III | PDF version 3rd Report - Prospects for codifying the relationship between central and local government - Volume III ()Published 29 January 2013
Volume III: additional written evidence
2nd Special Report - Recall of MPs: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report of Session 2012–13 | PDF version 2nd Special Report - Recall of MPs: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report of Session 2012–13 ()HC 646 | Published 22 October 2012 | Purchase title 2nd Special Report - Recall of MPs: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report of Session 2012–13
1st Special Report - Rules of Royal Succession: Government Response to the Committee’s Eleventh Report of Session 2010–12 | PDF version 1st Special Report - Rules of Royal Succession: Government Response to the Committee’s Eleventh Report of Session 2010–12 ()HC 586 | Published 10 September 2012 | Purchase title 1st Special Report - Rules of Royal Succession: Government Response to the Committee’s Eleventh Report of Session 2010–12
Special Report
2nd Report - Introducing a statutory register of lobbyists - Volume I | PDF version 2nd Report - Introducing a statutory register of lobbyists - Volume I ()HC 153 | Published 13 July 2012 | Purchase title 2nd Report - Introducing a statutory register of lobbyists - Volume I
Volume I: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence
2nd Report - Introducing a statutory register of lobbyists - Volume II | PDF version 2nd Report - Introducing a statutory register of lobbyists - Volume II ()Published 13 July 2012
Volume II: additional written evidence
1st Report - Recall of MPs | PDF version 1st Report - Recall of MPs ()HC 373 | Published 28 June 2012 | Purchase title 1st Report - Recall of MPs
Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

Written evidence

Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation - written evidence HC 74 | Published 17 September 2012
The impact and effectiveness of ministerial reshuffles - written evidencePublished 06 July 2012
Mapping the Path to Codifying - or not Codifying - the UK's ConstitutionPublished 02 July 2012
Do we need a constitutional convention for the UK? - written evidence - Published 16 June 2012

Oral evidence

Do we need a constitutional convention for the UK? - corrected evidence - 8 November 2012HC 371-vii | Published 21 February 2013
Evidence given by Miss Chloë Smith MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Cabinet Office, and Ciaran Martin, Director, Constitution Group, Cabinet Office
Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation - corrected evidence - 10 January 2013 | PDF version Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation - corrected evidence - 10 January 2013 ()HC 74-vii | Published 20 February 2013
Evidence given by Rt Hon Andrew Lansley MP, Leader of the House of Commons, and Adam Pile, Cabinet Office
The impact and effectiveness of ministerial reshuffles - corrected evidence - 13 December 2012 | PDF version The impact and effectiveness of ministerial reshuffles - corrected evidence - 13 December 2012 ()HC 707-iv | Published 04 February 2013
Evidence given by Rt Hon Charles Clarke; Rt Hon Lord Heseltine CH PC; and Rt Hon Lord Reid of Cardowan
The Impact and effectiveness of ministerial reshuffles - corrected evidence - 6 December 2012 | PDF version The Impact and effectiveness of ministerial reshuffles - corrected evidence - 6 December 2012 ()HC 707-iii | Published 04 January 2013
Evidence given by Rt Hon Lord Turnbull KCB CVO, Former Cabinet Secretary; Chris Mullin, Former Member of Parliament for Sunderland South
The impact and effectiveness of ministerial reshuffles - corrected evidence - 22 November 2012 | PDF version The impact and effectiveness of ministerial reshuffles - corrected evidence - 22 November 2012 ()HC 707-i | Published 11 December 2012
Evidence given by Rt Hon Peter Riddell CBE, Director, Institute for Government, and Akash Paun, Senior Researcher, Institute for Government
Do we need a constitutional convention for the UK? - corrected evidence - 4 October 2012 | PDF version Do we need a constitutional convention for the UK? - corrected evidence - 4 October 2012 ()HC 371-iv | Published 22 November 2012
Willie Rennie MSP, Leader of Scottish Liberal Democrats, Scottish Parliament; Nigel Smith, Director of VoxScot, strategic advice for referendum campaigns, and Professor James Mitchell, Strathclyde University; Ruth Davidson MSP, Leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Scottish Parliament; and Johann Lamont MSP, Leader of Scottish Labour, Scottish Parliament
Do we need a constitutional convention for the UK ? - corrected evidence - 1 November 2012 | PDF version Do we need a constitutional convention for the UK ? - corrected evidence - 1 November 2012 ()HC 371-vi | Published 22 November 2012
Evidence given by Dr Robin Wilson; Mike Nesbitt MLA, Dr Christopher McGimpsey and John McCallister MLA
Do we need a constitutional convention for the UK? - corrected evidence - 18 October 2012 | PDF version Do we need a constitutional convention for the UK? - corrected evidence - 18 October 2012 ()HC 371-v | Published 22 November 2012
Evidence given by Lord Maclennan of Rogart, Co-Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party Committee; Canon Kenyon Wright, Former Executive Chairman of the cross-party Scottish Constitutional Convention (1989-1999)
Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation - corrected evidence - 18 October 2012HC 74-vi | Published 06 November 2012
Evidence given by Sir David Lloyd Jones, Chairman, Ms Elaine Lorimer, Chief Executive, The Law Commission, and Mr Adrian Hogarth, Parliamentary Counsel, The Law Commission
Do we need a constitutional convention for the UK? - corrected evidence - 6 September 2012HC 371-iii | Published 05 October 2012
Evidence given by Sir Merrick Cockell, Chairman, Local Government Association; Ged Fitzgerald, Chief Executive, Liverpool City Council, Will Godfrey, Strategic Director for Corporate Services, Bristol City Council, and Tom Riordan, Chief Executive, Leeds City Council
Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation - corrected evidence - 13 September 2012 | PDF version Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation - corrected evidence - 13 September 2012 ()HC 74-v | Published 20 September 2012
Evidence given by Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP, Lord Maclennan of Rogart and Lord Norton of Louth
Do we need a constitutional convention for the UK? - corrected evidence - 12 July 2012 | PDF version Do we need a constitutional convention for the UK? - corrected evidence - 12 July 2012 ()HC 371-ii | Published 06 August 2012
Evidence given by Andrew R.T. Davies AM, Leader of the Welsh Conservative Group; Carwyn Jones AM, First Minister of Wales and Leader of Welsh Labour
Do we need a constitutional convention for the UK? - corrected evidence - 28 June 2012 | PDF version Do we need a constitutional convention for the UK? - corrected evidence - 28 June 2012 ()HC 371-i | Published 24 July 2012
Evidence given by Peter Facey, Unlock Democracy and Lewis Baston, Democratic Audit
Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation - corrected evidence - 5 July 2012 | PDF version Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation - corrected evidence - 5 July 2012 ()HC 74-iv | Published 24 July 2012
Evidence given by Dr Ruth Fox, Hansard Society; Professor Dawn Oliver, Emeritus Professor of Constitutional Law, UCL, and Mr Mark Ryan, Senior Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law, Coventry University
Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation - corrected evidence - 21 June 2012 | PDF version Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation - corrected evidence - 21 June 2012 ()HC 74-iii | Published 09 July 2012
Evidence given by Rt Hon Lord Butler of Brockwell KG, GCB, CVO and Sir Nicholas Monck KCB, Better Government Initiative, and Nat le Roux, The Constitution Society
Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation - corrected evidence - 14 June 2012 | PDF version Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation - corrected evidence - 14 June 2012 ()HC 74-ii | Published 28 June 2012
Evidence given by Richard Heaton, First Parliamentary Counsel, and David Cook, Second Parliamentary Counsel
Ensuring standards in the quality of legislation - corrected evidence - 10 May 2012HC 74-i | Published 25 May 2012
Evidence given by Daniel Greenberg, Lawyer and former member of the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel. 10 May 2012

Uncorrected oral evidence

Role and Powers of the Prime Minister - uncorrected evidence - 7 February 2013HC 975-i | Published 13 February 2013
Evidence given by Professor Robert Hazell CBE, Professor of British Politics and Government and Director of the Constitution Unit, UCL and Professor Michael Foley, Professor of International Politics, Aberystwyth University.
The impact and effectiveness of ministerial reshuffles - uncorrected evidence - 31 January 2013 | PDF version The impact and effectiveness of ministerial reshuffles - uncorrected evidence - 31 January 2013 ()HC 707-vi | Published 11 February 2013
Evidence given by Chris Moncrieff, Press Association, and Steve Richards, The Independent
The impact and effectiveness of ministerial reshuffles - uncorrected evidence - 24 January 2013 | PDF version The impact and effectiveness of ministerial reshuffles - uncorrected evidence - 24 January 2013 ()HC 707-v | Published 11 February 2013
Evidence given by Sir Jeremy Heywood KCB, CVO, Cabinet Secretary
Do we need a constitutional convention for the UK? - uncorrected evidence - 17 January 2013 | PDF version Do we need a constitutional convention for the UK? - uncorrected evidence - 17 January 2013 ()HC 371-viii | Published 25 January 2013
Evidence given by Paul Silk, Chair of the Commission on Devolution in Wales, and Professor Noel Lloyd, Member of the Commission on Devolution in Wales
The Coalition Government's programme for political and constitutional reform - uncorrected evidence - 13 December 2012 | PDF version The Coalition Government's programme for political and constitutional reform - uncorrected evidence - 13 December 2012 ()HC 834-i | Published 27 December 2012
Evidence given by Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP, Deputy Prime Minister and Miss Chloe Smith MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Cabinet Office.
The impact and effectiveness of ministerial reshuffles - uncorrected evidence - 29 November 2012 | PDF version The impact and effectiveness of ministerial reshuffles - uncorrected evidence - 29 November 2012 ()HC 707-ii | Published 05 December 2012
Evidence given by Sir Bob Kerslake, Head of the Civil Service

Oral and written evidence

The Coalition Government’s programme of political and constitutional reform - oral and written evidence | PDF version The Coalition Government’s programme of political and constitutional reform - oral and written evidence ()HC 178 | Published 20 June 2012 | Purchase title The Coalition Government’s programme of political and constitutional reform - oral and written evidence
Oral and written evidence: Thursday 19 April 2012: Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP, Deputy Prime Minister, and Mr Mark Harper MP, Minister for Political and Constitutional Reform, Cabinet Office