What is Joint parliamentary committee?

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...

The Standing Advisory Committee before the European Patent Office is a committee advising the European Patent Office on patent law issues. In the context of the SACEPO meetings, the EPO...

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...

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families is a junior ministerial position in the Department for Education, previously the Department for Children, Schools and Families and Department for...

The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body is a body of the Scottish Parliament responsible for the administration of the parliament. It also has a role in provision of services to commissioners...

A select committee is a committee made up of a small number of parliamentary members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues originating in the Westminster system of parliamentary...

The Standing Joint Committee on the Scrutiny of Regulations is a joint committee of the House of Commons of Canada and the Senate of Canada. Its mandate is to examine...