Select committee: Constitution Committee
Recommendation 33
8th Report - Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill
Published 19 Nov 2021
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We recommend that the Dissolution Principles should be subject to further detailed scrutiny by Parliament , preferably as part of a consultation on a draft update of the Cabinet Manual. The principles should be clear and reflect a general political consensus. They should also safeguard the political neutrality of the monarch in the dissolution process. Devolution implications
From: Constitution Committee, 8th Report - Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill, 19 November 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 13 December 2021 (deadline 19 January 2022).