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From October 3 to 7, 2011, the Honourable Kenneth Marende, Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya, led a parliamentary delegation to Ottawa at the invitation of the Honourable Andrew Scheer, Speaker of the House of Commons.

Diane Abbott (Labour MP) and Crispin Poyser (Clerk of the Overseas Office, House of Commons) hosted this session. An introduction to the Westminster system, delegates posed many questions regarding their experience, and how they would apply in a UK context. Delegates were reassured that the Executive is kept in check, with individual MPs expected to hold government to account, even MPs sitting ...

Participants heard presentations by: the Honourable Juan Watterson, Speaker of the Isle of Man’s House of Keys; Luiz Fernando Bandeira de Mello, Secretary-General of the Board of Brazil’s Senate; and Matthew Hamlyn, Strategic Director of the Chamber Business Team of the United Kingdom’s House of Commons. They discussed the technical and political challenges associated with implementing ...

One view is that the composition of the House should be approximately 30% Labour, 30% Conservative, 10% Liberal Democrat and 30% cross-benchers. Lord Howe stated that a third of the bills in Parliament are initiated in the House of Lords which generally gives closer scrutiny to the detail of legislative proposals than does the House of Commons.

Search Results for members entrance house of lords Results 1381 - 1390 of about 6500 Visit of the Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, Speaker of the Senate, and a Parliamentary Delegation, Ireland and Scotland From August 26 to September 1, 2011, the Speaker of the Senate, the Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, led a parliamentary delegation on an ...

Parliamentary Associations Associations promote the country’s interests abroad on a continuing basis and are composed of both members of the Senate and of the House of Commons. There are 8 Multilateral Associations and 5 Bilateral Associations.

There is a fear an elected House of Lords could weaken the House of Commons and as both Houses would be democratically elected this could lead to a constitutional challenges. Currently the House of Lords has over 800 members (life peers, bishops, and appointed). The second chamber currently functions by consensus.

From September 26 to 30, 2011, His Excellency Jakup Krasniqi, President of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo, led a parliamentary delegation to Ottawa, Toronto and Niagara-on-the-Lake at the invitation of the Honourable Andrew Scheer, Speaker of the House of Commons.

The concept and protection of parliamentary privilege has received much discussion in the United Kingdom. Specifically, privilege was the subject of a 1999 Joint Committee of the House of Commons and the House of Lords report, a 2012 U.K. Government Green Paper, and a 2013 report of the U.K. Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privilege. Senators in Canada considered these works with great ...

One view is that the composition of the House should be approximately 30% Labour, 30% Conservative, 10% Liberal Democrat and 30% cross-benchers. Lord Howe stated that a third of the bills in Parliament are initiated in the House of Lords which generally gives closer scrutiny to the detail of legislative proposals than does the House of Commons.