Zusammenfassung der Ressource
House of Commons
- Representing the people
- MPs are elected to act on the behalf of the people in their constituency .
- They ask questions and debate issues in the commons . Try to persuade ministers and departments and examine legislation
- MAKING LAWS
- Government policies are presented to commons as bills
- Bills are debated and voted on to become statue laws for the government to inplement
- MPs can also introduce private member bills on issues that concern them or their constituents
- Controlling finance
- The commons debate the chancellor of exchequers budget and approve it as the finance act
- The public accounts committee checks the spending of the government departments