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Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill

It contains provisions to:

• complete the process of removing the hereditary principle from the House of Lords
• provide for the disqualification of Peers convicted of a serious criminal offence
• allow Peers to resign
• place the Civil Service Code, recruitment into the Civil Service and the role of the Civil Service Commissioners on a statutory footing
• create a statutory basis for the Parliamentary scrutiny of Treaties, prior to their ratification
• remove the Prime Minister from involvement in all judicial appointments in England and Wales
• create a new corporate structure for the National Audit Office
• standardise accounting procedures for non-departmental public bodies
• repeal legislation that limits protests around Parliament
• standardise the time limit within which legal action can be brought under the Human Rights Act across the UK.

Some proposals in the Bill were published in the Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill.

• Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill

• Impact Assessment of reducing the “30-year rule” for release of official documents to 20 years (PDF 0.18mb 23 pages)

• Letter on amendments for committee stage to implement recommendations on MPs' expenses and allowances (PDF 0.05mb 3 pages)