CPAG guide to Welfare Reform Bill parliamentary ‘ping pong’

With ‘financial privilege’ is there any opportunity?

Dr Jeff King, Senior Law Lecturer at University College London, has published an analysis of the Commons’ claims of financial privilege, and their implications.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/constitution-unit-news/030212a

Further to today’s rightsnet news story, in relation to the WRB returning to the Lords and the possibility of further (and different) amendments being debated and voted upon, it seems that the use of financial privilege is not as rare an event as has been claimed.

Andrew Sparrow of the Guardian gave a helpful explanation on the issue on his Politics Live blog earlier on (scroll down to entry at 1.59pm).

I asked him which were the Bills that were affected by this and he replied that since 2010, financial privilege has been used on the ID cards Bill, Voting Systems Bill, and Personal Care at Home Bill, none of which appear to have been implemented (or at least the plug was quickly pulled on the ID Cards).

Whether that has any bearing whatsoever on the successful implementation of the WRB is another matter altogether.