Parliamentary Affairs: special issue on '40 years of departmental select committees in the House of Commons' (vol 72, issue 4, 2019)

A Statutory Instrument comes into force on 11 April that changes the legal requirements for the release of certain types… of genetically modified plants. Some argue that the changes should have been made by primary, rather than delegated, legislation. Where does the boundary between the two lie?

The Brexit process, the pandemic and the approach of the Johnson Government have all tended towards Parliament’s margina…lisation and the accretion of executive power. For UK in a Changing Europe’s report on the constitutional landscape, we show how – in the legislative process and control of public money and executive action, including delegated legislation.

Sanctions are imposed on an individual in two stages - by Ministers first making regulations and secondly designating th…e individual, using a power in those regulations. Parliament has a role in the first stage, but not the second.