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How effective is Parliament in Controlling the Executive? Within the parliamentary government currently in place in Britain, the executive should, in theory, be subordinate to the legislature, due to the fact that members of the executive are chosen from the majority party in the legislature. However, in practice, with electoral systems that tend to produce governments with strong majorities, it is usually the case that the executive dominates the legislature; the legislature limited to scrutinising the executive rather than controlling it, hence the phrase 'electoral dictatorship'. In scrutinising the government, the legislature employs a variety of methods including Question Time, Select Committees, Her Majesty's Opposition and The Controlling of Finance. Question Time is an opportunity for MP's within the House of Commons to ask oral questions of Cabinet Members, with written questions also being replied to. The theory of 'Question Time' is fundamentally important, i.e. questioning the government will hold them to...

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