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Hina Safdar Parliament has many roles. Identify and discuss its roles. This essay discusses the major roles in Parliament by referring to both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The roles include Law Making, Scrutiny and Representation. It will then discuss whether the roles are effective or not. Legitimation is a main role of Parliament. Legitimating means that Parliament has the right to make laws. All policy proposals that come from the government must be legitimised by Parliament as a whole; this includes both the Commons and the Lords voting for or against policy. For the proposal to become a law it needs to have the majority of votes. In 2001 the Labour party only received 41% of the vote, where as the Conservative party received 33% percent of the vote, which shows with the Labour government being in power not everyone is represented, in fact on 41% of the...

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