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Who resides over the House of Commons and ensures that the rules of the House are observed?
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The Speaker
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What voting system is used to elect this position?
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Exhaustive Ballot
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What is the title given to the largest opposition party in the House of Commons?
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Official Opposition
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What group includes all Conservative backbenchers and meets weekly to discuss forthcoming business?
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1922 Committee
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What organisation has the responsibility for non-political appointments to the House of Lords and scrutinises political appointments?
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House of Lords Appointments Commission
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What Act occured in 2014 and allowed for peers to retire?
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House of Lords Reform Act
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Who are responsible for enforcing party discipline and making sure all members of the party are informed and have their views heard?
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The Whips
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What is the convention that dictates that MPs have legal immunity concerning their right to free speech in Parliament?
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Parliamentary Priviledge
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How many urgent questions did John Bercow give in the 2015-16 parliamentary session, a large increase?
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77
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What Conservative collective was made up of eurosceptic conservative backbenchers?
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European Research Group
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In the Labour government between 1997-2010, out of 10, how many defeats in the House of Lords were accepted? Consider that Blair and Brown were defeated more than 400 times in the House of Lords, despite only losing 7 times in the House of Commons.
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4
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What is a bill that has a general effect and makes changes to the entirety of the UK population?
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Public Bill
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This could be a government bill - introduced by the government - or a...? A bill introduced by backbench MPs.
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Private Members' Bill
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Two papers are used as part of the consultation process. One is green and that document explains the specififc issues the government would like to address and provokes debate and discussion, the other is...? It sets out the government plans for new legislation and incites feedback on possible changes to the bill.
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White Papers
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What phase in the Parliamentary process involves tbe minister responsible for the bill making a statement supporting the bill followed by comments from the relevant shadow minister, and a brief debate on the principles of the bill?
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Second Reading
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What was the last bill to be defeated in this phase, in 1986?
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Shops Bill
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Who is the bill sent to after this phase to scrutinise the bill line by line? These are temporary groups set up for this particular bill and range between 16-50 MPs with the composition being roughly proportional to the layout of the House of Commons.
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Public Bill Committee
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What percentage of business in the House of Commons is spent debating bills, considering that 43.6% of business in the House of Lords is spent debating bills?
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22%
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What part of the parliamentary process only concerns laws for England (or England and Wales) and gives English MPs two opportunities to veto all or particular clauses of bills?
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English Votes for English Laws
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How many Fridays are reserved in a Parliamentary session for Private Members' bills?
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13
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What is the term given to law created by ministers under powers given to them by Acts of Parliament?
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Secondary Legislation
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How many Private Members' Bills have received royal assent between 2000-2010 considering that 145 received royal assent between 1990-2000?
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48
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What is the term given to the occasions where parties allow MPs to not be pressured by party whips, particularly on matters of conscience?
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Free Vote
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What occurance in Parliament is an opportunity for backbench and frontbench MPs to ask oral questions to the government?
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Prime Minister's Questions
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How did John Bercow describe this part of Parliament as in 2013?
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'reputation carnage'
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