A little more context: the global average of women in parliaments is 17% so like in a lot of things the US (16%) is just below average. ❋ Unknown (2008)
All that talk about bringing power back home to the local parliaments is great. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Straw feels however, that the use of three parliaments is needed to obtain the 80%-100% elected chamber. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The fixed-term parliaments bill prevents fracturing by ensuring neither partner can threaten the other with an early election. ❋ Unknown (2011)
They will have to get a move on – the fixed term parliaments bill, setting the date of the next election as 7 May 2015, has already reached its Lords' report stage. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He suggested that the government should give up the bill and try to ensure that Britain has fixed-term parliaments by changing parliamentary standing orders (the House of Commons's in-house rule book). ❋ Unknown (2010)
Former Labour lord chancellor Lord Falconer said he backed the idea of fixed-term parliaments, but warned the present proposals risked leaving an impotent "zombie" government in power. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"We've clearly dragged them a long way on political reform: fixed-term parliaments, [an elected] House of Lords." ❋ Unknown (2010)
The ex-Lib Dem MP David Howarth, who developed party policy on fixed-term parliaments, says there are no plans to change rules on no-confidence. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Every line of his remit is directed not at people in the towns and counties of Britain but at Westminster: alternative voting, fixed-term parliaments and Lords reform, the last almost certainly meaning party list proportional representation. ❋ Unknown (2010)
• Parliament's most senior legislative expert has urged the government to abandon the fixed-term parliaments bill. ❋ Unknown (2010)
That commitment is not just to tougher expenses rules but to a national debate in a referendum on the electoral system, to fixed-term parliaments, to an elected House of Lords, and to a much more powerful role for backbenchers in the Commons. ❋ Shirley Williams (2010)
This week there was a row over the bill to entrench five-year fixed term parliaments, chiefly because ministers decided the present session will now run until May 2012 – two years – and that the monarch will pay future Queen's Speech visits in spring, not in the traditional Guy Fawkes season. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Introduces fixed-term parliaments, gives voters the right to recall MPs found guilty of serious wrongdoing and sets up a referendum on the alternative vote system. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Early in the life of this coalition, a great deal of weight is being placed on plans for fixed-term parliaments, democratising the Lords, holding a referendum on the voting system, scrapping ID cards and the rest of that agenda. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He said it would be better if the government arranged for Britain to have fixed-term parliaments by changing the standing orders of the House of Commons. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Fixed term parliaments are an important rebalancing of power from the executive to parliament. ❋ Unknown (2010)
(See 2. 19pm) • The Cabinet Office has rejected a suggestion from the clerk of the Commons, parliament's most senior legislative expert, that it should shelve the fixed-term parliaments bill. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Even today, there have been concurrent debates about whether there should be fixed-term parliaments and whether voters should be able to recall their political representatives. ❋ Unknown (2009)
