Parliament Acts

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Prevention of Terroism Bill 2005
MPs reduced the number of days terror suspects could be held without charge from 90 days to 28.
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Life Peerages Act 1958
Removed the power of permanent veto over legislation. In future, any bill that passed the Commons in 3 successive sessions automatically became law
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Parliament Act 1911
Further limited the delaying power of Lords, any bill that passed 2 successive sessions became law (delaying power now around 8 months) this has been used on 4 occasions; bill on abolishing fox-hunting
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Parliament Act 1949
Permitted men and women to be created as life peers. The purpose was to diversify membership.
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Salisbury Doctrine
Dating from 1945, established the convention that Lords can not oppose government bills if they've been in their manifesto
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Parliamentary Reform since 1997
When labour came into power, end the statue of 'the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the HofL' phase one abolished all but 92 hereditary peers, the 92 were elected by party groupings, left the judicial and spiritual members untouched. Got
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Labours 2001 White Paper
Proposed a second chamber consisting of 600 members, 20% of whom would be directly elected, opponents waned 80% elected, the Commons were presented with 8 different models and in 2003 rejected them all.
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2007 White Paper
Commons retain primacy, an upper chamber split 50:50 between elected & appointed members serving a single term of 12 years, appointments made by a new independent Statutory Appointments Commission, no single party would have an overall majority.
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Resemblance Theory of Representation
Holds that those in the legislature should be typical of their communities
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1979 Vote of No Confidence
The Labour government under prime minister James Callaghan was removed prematurely from office after a sustained period of industrial unrest and economic problems.
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1986 Shops Bill
The only time in Margaret Thatcher’s period in office that her government lost a vote on a major piece of legislation. The Shops Bill was a proposal to allow more shops to open for trading on Sunday. The government underestimated the strength of opp
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1994 VAT Rise Defeated
John Major’s government was defeated in the Commons over a proposal to raise the rate of VAT on fuel and energy.
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2005 Detention of Terrorists Suspects
Tony Blair’s attempt to extend the period that terrorist suspects could be held for questioning without trial to 90 days was defeated in the House of Commons.
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2008 Detention of Terrorist Suspects
Gordon Brown’s attempt to extend the period of detention to 42 days was defeated in the House of Lords and the government did not attempt to overturn it.
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2011 Fixed Term Parliaments Bill Defeated
The House of Lords defeated the coalition government on the provision to introduce 5-year fixed parliamentary terms permanently. It instead insisted that the measure would lapse after 2015 unless renewed by Parliament.
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Removed the power of permanent veto over legislation. In future, any bill that passed the Commons in 3 successive sessions automatically became law

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Parliament Act 1911

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Parliament Act 1949

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Salisbury Doctrine

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