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Government and Politics Mr.Jones Jaypal Sandhu 12C Identify and explain the main functions of parliament. Parliament has many functions. A political scientist, Philip Norton outlined these functions in to five categories. The five main functions of parliament are legislature, representation, recruitment, scrutiny and legitimacy. Each one is as important as the other however the main two functions of parliament are scrutiny and influence. The predominant role of parliament is scrutiny. Scrutiny is when parliament needs two look over, in detail, potential bills and laws. They do so by reading over the bill in detail and to make sure that it will work. Parliament do not actually scrutinise the bills themselves, they are in fact sent to standing committees which is made of MPs proportional to those in the House Of Commons in terms of the political parties and the percentage of seats they hold in the commons, i.e. if labour had a 60%...

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