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Parliament's record since 1997: debates, questions, statements, votes, bills, committees and members' interests

Where MPs Stand

Sourced briefings on the record of Parliament

Sittings of the House and the Parliamentary Calendar

Inquiry by the Procedure Committee, 7 March 2011 to 1 April 2012. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 29 June 2011: Dr Ruth Fox, Director, Parliament and Government Programme, Hansard Society, Professor Sarah Childs, Professor of Politics and Gender, University of Bristol
  • 7 September 2011: the Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, Sir Alan Beith MP, Kitty Ussher, former MP, Graham Brady MP, Lorely Burt MP and Tony Lloyd MP
  • 14 September 2011: Peter Ainsworth, Former MP, Tony Baldry MP, Dame Anne Begg MP, Natascha Engel MP, Rt Hon Joan Ruddock MP, Jonathan Edwards MP, Mary Macleod MP and Pete Wishart MP.
  • 11 January 2012: Will Conway, Max Freedman, Ken Gall and Sian Norris-Copson, Sir Alan Haselhurst MP and John Thurso MP
  • 18 January 2012: Robert Rogers, Clerk of the House of Commons and Chief Executive of the House Service, David Natzler, Clerk Assistant and Director General of the Department of Chambers and Committee Services, and Matthew Hamlyn, Head of the Office of the Chief Executive
  • 1 February 2012: Angela Eagle MP and Rt Hon Sir George Young MP