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• Date: 22 December 2020

A selection of recent publications relating to parliamentary studies prepared with the assistance of the Library of Parliament (September 2020-November 2020)

Baroness Taylor of Bolton. "A question of confidence? The Constitution Committee's view on the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011." Constitution Unit blog 5p., September 18, 2020.

* Nine years after the passage of the Fixed term Parliaments Act, both government and opposition have expressed a desire to repeal it, following two general elections: one brought about using the provisions of the Act and another by circumventing them. The Constitution Committee has produced a report setting out what any replacement legislation needs to address.

Bradley, Karen. "Requiring MPs to vote in person during coronavirus places the institution of parliament at risk. It's time to bring remote divisions back and to plan for continued restrictions." Constitution Unit blog 7p., September 23, 2020.

* Today, the House of Commons will decide whether or not MPs should be allowed to continue to vote by proxy. Karen Bradley, Chair of the Commons Procedure Committee, sets out her views on how voting should take place, calling on MPs to support her amendment, which would require the government to bring alternative proposals for conducting divisions to the House for debate and decision. Those proposals, she argues, ought to include the...