Recommendation 206

We recommend the Government enters into a formal agreement with the House of Lords on the information it will provide about its intergovernmental engagements, to enhance the current scrutiny arrangements. This agreement should formalise the information already provided by the Government and, in the same manner as the agreements between the Scottish and Welsh administrations and legislatures, should include the advance notification of formal intergovernmental meetings to the House, as well as greater detail about those meetings as we have recommended. The agreement should also include a commitment to provide the proposed memorandum we recommended to strengthen the House’s consideration of legislative consent issues.