How Parliament Interacts With The Executive and an assessment of Parliament

Parliament And The Executive 

• MPS cannot be prosecuted for what they say in wesminster, Jacob Reese Mog for example 
• However doesent mean they are above the law, expenses scandle of 2010, dealt with by parliament not the police
• MPS do generally do a good job, Jeremey Quinn representing Horsham as a backbench MP
• However they can sometimes be inactive or just do as party whips say, under blair everyone just obeyed 
• The Lords can be very inactive, Lord Sewell and the cocaine scandal
• However other Lords can be extremely politically active, Lord Adonis doig a good job 
• Select comitees do a good job of holding the executive to account, The Public Accounts Comitee, investigates finances and its chair is always an opposition member 
• However they can also be very government dominated, for example Departmental select comitees always have a governing party member as the chair 
• Opposition in Parliament can hold the government to account well, for example during PMQT the opposition can ask anything 
• However a weak opposition…