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The House of Lords is a chamber well suited to the activity of scrutiny. As the second chamber, not in the business of contesting power with the Government of the day, it is less driven by the demands of competitive party politics than the Commons. A substantial non-party or cross-bench element has been included within its active membership. And the experience and expertise of its membership is wide ranging.
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See Philip Giddings and Gavin Drewry, Westminster and Europe: the Impact of the European Union on the Westminster Parliament. Macmillan, 1996, especially chapter 5.
Ivor Richard & Damien Welfare, Unfinished Business: Reforming the Lord. Vintage, 1999, p. 26
Donald Shell & David Beamish, The House of Lords at Work. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. 286–88.
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Shell, D. (2005). The House of Lords: A Chamber of Scrutiny. In: Giddings, P. (eds) The Future of Parliament. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523142_10
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