Parliamentary time spent scrutinising bill : session 1 /
Hobbs, Gordon,author.
Oag, Denis,author.
Wakefield, Simon,1965-author.
Williams, Gwynneth,author.
Scotland.Parliament.Information Centre.
Scotland.Parliament.Corporate Body,issuing body.
"This briefing offers analysis of the time the Parliament has spent considering bills (excluding private bills) in its first session from 12 May1999 to 31 March 2003 in formal committee and plenary meetings. It isprovided in response to a parliamentary question - S2W-9878 - David McLetchie (Edinburgh Pentlands) (Con): To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what information it has on how much parliamentary time has been spent scrutinising each Bill since 1999,broken down by legislative stage. The briefing does not include, for example, time spent by Members or staff working on bills outside formally recorded parliamentary sitting time. In the Parliament’s first 4 year session a total of 70 bills (excluding private bills) were introduced. Of these, 51 were Executive bills, 16 were Members bills and 3 were Committee bills. Sixty one of these bills (50Executive, 8 Member’s and 3 Committee) have been enacted. The remaining 9 bills (1 Executive and 8 Members) were either withdrawn or fell at the end of the session. The Parliament spent just over 1,078 hours in formal consideration of bills during its first parliamentary session."
"04/75".
"29 October 2004".
Includes bibliographical references.
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