Legislation under review: an assessment of post-legislative scrutiny recommendations in the UK parliament

Caygill, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8551-2192, 2019. Legislation under review: an assessment of post-legislative scrutiny recommendations in the UK parliament. The Journal of Legislative Studies, 25 (2), pp. 295-313. ISSN 1357-2334

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Abstract

Post-legislative scrutiny allows Parliament to revisit legislation after it has been enacted to ensure that it is operating as intended. As most literature on the UK legislative process suggests that is not optimal, this is an important task that committees can undertake to ensure that any problems can be located and rectified. This paper reports the findings of a systematic study of the outcomes of post-legislative scrutiny in terms of the types of recommendations being made, whether they are being accepted by the government, and what factors impact upon the acceptance of those recommendations. It concludes that there is a bias in the legislation being selected to receive post-legislative scrutiny and that committees, on the whole, are producing weaker recommendations which are more likely to be accepted. Additionally, it concludes that the stronger the action that a recommendation calls for, the more likely it is to be rejected.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	The Journal of Legislative Studies
Creators:	Caygill, T.
Publisher:	Routledge
Date:	3 April 2019
Volume:	25
Number:	2
ISSN:	1357-2334
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/13572334.2019.1603260 DOI 1450179 Other
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	07 Jul 2021 14:58
Last Modified:	14 Dec 2021 14:22
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/43356

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