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Explain the Parliamentary stages through which government bills must pass before becoming law.
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Constitutional Law Madiha T. Khan Q) Explain the Parliamentary stages through which government bills must pass before becoming law. A) The majority of Bills will be those put forward by the government to implement its policies. These fall as public, private hybrid or money. Apart from some differences, the procedure and stages of all bills is quite similar. A Government bill may start in either House, although bills the main purpose of which is taxation or expenditure start in the House of Commons. A bill, which begins its proceedings in the House of Lords, still goes through exactly the same stages in the Commons. Bills typically take weeks or months to complete their passage through Parliament, but the Government can, if it wishes and with the agreement of the House, accelerate progress. Bills are drafted by a team of lawyers in the Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO), which is part of the Cabinet Office, on...
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