Converting the Queen’s Speech promises into legislation
Page, E. C.
(2010).
Converting the Queen’s Speech promises into legislation.
(2010).
Converting the Queen’s Speech promises into legislation.
The coalition government’s Queen’s Speech outlines a highly ambitious programme of legislation, which on past form seems likely to be fully implemented and very little amended in the House of Commons or the Lords. But how is such a full and dynamic policy programme actually converted into workable laws? Edward Page illuminates one of the key processes in the ‘efficient secret’ of British government.