Crown Lands and Estates

(asked on 1st March 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what guidance is provided on the insertion of Crown savings clauses into government bills; and whether their insertion is determined by individual departments.


Answered by
Baroness Neville-Rolfe Portrait
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 14th March 2017

The Office of Parliamentary Counsel (OPC) has published a series of guides, one of which is on Crown Application. This is publicly available and can be found on GOV.UK under ‘publications by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel’.

Individual departments instruct the OPC on the drafting of Bills for which they have policy and handling responsibility, but there is a central process by which the content and drafting of Bills is collectively agreed. Guidance on the legislative process and an explanation of taking a Bill through Parliament can also be found on GOV.UK.

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