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Government and Parliamentary Report

June–September 2017

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2018

Frank Cranmer*
Affiliation:
Fellow, St Chad's College, Durham Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University

Extract

As foreshadowed in the previous report for February to May, in June the Conservatives concluded a ‘Confidence and Supply’ agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party in order to give them a small working majority in the Commons. The Queen duly delivered the Gracious Speech on 21 June, outlining the legislative programme for a Parliamentary session that, unusually, will run from 2017 to 2019. In July, the new Government published the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill and in September it was given a second reading by 326 votes to 290 and committed to the Committee of the whole House for eight days of detailed debate.

Type
Government and Parliamentary Report
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2018 

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References

1 See ‘PM statement on Confidence and Supply agreement with the DUP’, 10 Downing Street, 26 June <https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-statement-on-confidence-and-supply-agreement-with-the-dup>, accessed 27 September 2017.

2 It had been trailed as ‘The Great Repeal Bill’ but, presumably, Parliamentary Counsel Office persuaded ministers that that was not an appropriate short title for an Act.

9 Available at <http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/796/contents/made>, accessed 26 September 2017.

11 Available at <https://www.churchofengland.org/media/3956676/organists.pdf>, accessed 26 September 2017.

14 Available at <http://www.churchcare.co.uk/images/Guidance_Notes/Ruins.pdf>, accessed 26 September 2017.