Role and powers of the Prime Minister

Inquiry by the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, 21 January 2011 to 26 January 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 2nd report - Fixed-term Parliaments Bill (16 September 2010)
• 4th Report - The role and powers of the Prime Minister: The impact of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 on Government - Volume I (Volume I: Report, together with formal minutes and oral evidence) (25 July 2013)
• 4th Report - The role and powers of the Prime Minister: The impact of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 on Government - Volume II (Volume II: additional written evidence) (25 July 2013)
• 1st Report - Role and powers of the Prime Minister (24 June 2014)

Evidence sessions

• 23 June 2011: Sue Pryce, Associate Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham
• 7 February 2013: Professor Robert Hazell CBE, Professor of Government and the Constitution, and Director of the Constitution Unit, School of Public Policy, UCL. Dan Corry, former Head of No. 10 Policy Unit
• 7 February 2013: Professor Robert Hazell CBE, Professor of British Politics and Government and Director of the Constitution Unit, UCL and Professor Michael Foley, Professor of International Politics, Aberystwyth University.
• 7 March 2013: Dan Corry, former Head of No. 10 Policy Unit, Dr Mark Bennister, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Canterbury Christ Church University,Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, Senior Consultant on Constitutional Affairs to Policy Exchange