The role of the MPs
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- The Role of the MPs
- Working in Parliament
- work includes
- dealing with constituency correspondence and issues
- attending debates and voting on new laws
- raising issues affecting their constituents
- attending functions both relating to their party politics and their political interests
- most MPs are also members of select or standing committees with look at issues of government policy or new laws
- when parliament is in session, MPs spend a lot of their time in the House of Commons
- The House of Commons is also a forum for national debate - MPs can bring their issues up there
- work includes
- Working in their constituency
- MPs leave the Houses of Parliament on Thursday and return to their constituencies
- hold surgeries to meet constituents and discuss their problems
- there will also be a round of functions to attend: from school to local businesses as well as party-political functions in the constituence
- MPs can help their constituents in a number of ways
- constituents can only raise an issue to their MP
- if personal, the MP can arrange a meeting with a minister and resolve the issue in private
- if the issue can be made public, the MP may raise it for debate in Parliament
- MPs can also raise issues by
- questions
- adjournment debates
- backbench debates
- Private Member's Bill
- MPs are elected to represent their constituency and all the people who live in it
- MPs divide their time between working in Parliament, in their constituency and working for their political party
- Some MPs hold ministerial posts or shadow ministerial posts with specific responsibilities, which take up a lot of time
- the salaries of MPs now lie in the hands of an independent body, after major controversy.
- Some MPs also have outside jobs and other interests
- Working in Parliament
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