Parliamentary Ombudsman is the name of the principal ombudsman institutions in Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. In each case, the terms refer both to the office of the parliamentary ombudsman and to an individual ombudsman.
Parliamentary Information and Communication Technology Service or PICT provides IT services to MPs, Peers and staff across the UK Parliament. It is the only department of Parliament jointly owned by...
In parliamentary procedure, recognition, or assignment of the floor, is the exclusive right to be heard at that time by a member of a deliberative assembly. With a few exceptions,...
The Romanian Ombudsman is an independent institution of the Government of Romania, responsible for investigating and addressing complaints made by citizens against other government institutions.
A parliamentary by-election occurs in Jamaica following a vacancy arising in the Parliament of Jamaica. They are often seen as a test of the rival political parties' fortunes between general...
Ombudsman in Ukraine is an office of commissioned representative who performs functions of ombudsman. Beside parliamentary ombudsman, there are several presidential commissioners.
Among the parliaments of the world, there are those with claims to have set a "record" as being the oldest, the largest, or the first to have undertaken some legislative...
Women's Parliamentary Radio is a website that broadcasts audio and video interviews with women MPs of all parties in the U.K. All the interviews are pre-recorded and put on the...
There are fifteen parliamentary committees in the Riksdag, Sweden's parliament. Each committee is made up of seventeen elected MPs, with at least one member from each political party. Additionally, the...
Debate in parliamentary procedure refers to discussion on the merits of a pending question; that is, whether it should or should not be agreed to. It is also commonly referred...