The role of the House of Lords in law making Video Lecture | How does UK Parliament's Education Service works? - Personal Learning

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so most bills start in the House of
Commons and when they finished with it
and it's been through all its stages
they're literally a hard copy is still
walked up to the House of Lords wrapped
up in ribbon it gets brought into the
chamber and a government minister will
stand up and read the long title and
this is known as the first reading and
the long title is a paragraph on the
bill
which just sums up what that bill is
doing and then that hard copy of the
bill gets taken out of the chamber and
up to our office where we keep it safe
so second reading is a debate and
members take it in turns to stand up and
talk about the subject and it's quite
useful because it can and they can also
take the opportunity to tell the
government well this is what I think of
your bill these are the bits I'm going
to try and change later on once we've
received the bill and once it's had its
second reading had then a bill is open
for amendments and members come into the
legislation office and discuss with us
the changes they'd like to make to the
bill and then we put everything in the
right order and print it up already for
everybody to look at when it's in the
chamber
if at second reading lots of people
disagree with the subject then at the
end they can have a vote and they can
decide to throw out the whole bill there
and then but that doesn't tend to happen
very often
my Lords a big to move that the house do
now resolve itself into a committee upon
the bill committee stage everybody turns
up and they go through the bill line by
line and most of the amendments are a
chance to try and work out what the
government's thinking what its policy is
in an area so people suggest changes
just to see what the government says
about them and whether they'll accept
them or not racism one is what is the
urgency to consider the report stage so
the next stage is called report stage
and this time they go through the bill
line by line again but the amendments
are there right down to the nitty-gritty
these are changes that people really
want to make and so quite often we get
more votes at reports age because people
really want to push the government and
find out how many people agree with them
the very last stage is called third
reading and this is pretty much just a
tidying up so if there's been a big
change earlier on which has lots of
consequential little changes so after
third reading all the changes that have
been made will be stuck in and all
crossed out as the case may be and then
it's wrapped up in red ribbon with a
message saying dear House of Commons
here's a bill that the House of Lords
have passed
please will you consider it so ping-pong
is the point where a bill is going
backwards and forwards between the two
houses and all they're looking at the
areas where they can't agree so
everything else that's agreed is put to
one side and on the areas where they
can't agree they try and find a
compromise and so the House of Lords
might say we don't like this what do you
think of this instead and the Commons
will either say yes or they might say no
we don't agree with that policy but how
about this compromise and they're
working it down until everybody's agreed
on a way forward so when both houses
have finished the bill then the last
stage is that the queen is asked to
signify that she's happy with it and
when that happens
both houses the speaker and the Lord
speaker stand up and announced that the
bill has been given its Royal Assent my
Lords I have to notify the house in
accordance with the Royal Assent Act in
1967 that the Queen has signified her
royal assent to the following acts then
the bill goes off and the final copy is
printed and it's that copy that is taken
up to the parliamentary archives and is
the official record
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