Select committee: Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
Conclusion 23
12th Report - Democracy Denied? The urgent need to rebalance power between Parliament and the Executive
Published 24 Nov 2021
Paragraph 117
Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee Delegation of legislative power All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
When drafting a delegated powers memorandum, departments should ensure that where the negative procedure is chosen on the ground that there is insufficient time for an affirmative, the memorandum explains why the “made affirmative” procedure is not applied. The threshold between the negative and the affirmative procedure depends on the substance of the instrument and should not be determined by political expediency.
From: Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, 12th Report - Democracy Denied? The urgent need to rebalance power between Parliament and the Executive, paragraph 117, 24 November 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 26 January 2022 (deadline 24 January 2022).