Commons Leader Powell Proposes Scrapping the Word ‘Bill’ in Parliament

Commons leader Lucy Powell has given an interview to The House magazine in which the only substantial modernisation reform she manages to suggest is getting rid of the word “bill.” Ummm…

Apart from introducing call-lists for debates Powell says no to reforming the seating structure, electronic divisions et cetera but takes head on the notion that parliamentarians should understand what bills and divisions are:

“One thing that we’ve heard quite strongly is where things have got a name or are given a title that doesn’t actually speak to what it is.