Proposals to reform the House

An Institute of Parliamentary Affairs should be established to train and assist parliamentarians and to conduct in-depth legislative research, suggests DR SHAD SALEEM FARUQI in the second of a two-part article on parliamentary reform. 

CONSTITUTIONAL historians are generally in agreement that in all Westminster systems, even in those with a tradition of “liberal democracy”, there has been a phenomenal increase in executive powers without a corresponding increase in Parliament's ability to oversee these powers.