Meeting of the Parliament 19 March 2026 [Draft]
The corporate body has produced guidance on members’ bills for all members for session 7. In doing so, we have sought to ensure that the system is as equitable and efficient as it can be.
In addition, the corporate body is not directive as to the specific number of posts or grades of posts in individual teams within any area of the Parliament. There is always opportunity to flex across the clerking team if the NGBU is facing particularly high pressure at certain times of year.
The Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee has also recommended changes to standing orders that would require an introduction deadline for members’ bills that is six months earlier in the parliamentary session than it currently is. That recommendation was intended to give more time for scrutiny and to work through the bill process, and we hope that it will ease some of the bottlenecks that some members have faced.