Select committee: Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
Recommendation 6
12th Report - Democracy Denied? The urgent need to rebalance power between Parliament and the Executive
Published 24 Nov 2021
Paragraph 67
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We recommend that: • Should the Government introduce skeleton legislation, the delegated powers memorandum should make an explicit declaration that the bill is a skeleton bill or clauses within a bill are skeleton clauses. • Such a declaration should be accompanied by a full justification for adopting that approach, including why no other approach was reasonable to adopt and how the scope of the skeleton provision is constrained.
From: Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, 12th Report - Democracy Denied? The urgent need to rebalance power between Parliament and the Executive, paragraph 67, 24 November 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 26 January 2022 (deadline 24 January 2022).