The maximum number of paid ministers is set out in legislation. The Prime Minister can also appoint unpaid ministers. All ministers, combined with Parliamentary Private Secretaries make up the 'payroll vote' in the House of Commons.
This is the full briefing on our series on House of Commons trends. It looks at statistics on the working and procedures of the House of Commons. It looks at the composition of the Commons, the Parliamentary mechanisms, time spent on different types of business and staffing among other things.
Tony Blair has had the highest attendance rate of any Prime Minister since 1979.
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John and Margaret have been the most popular names for MPs since 1979.
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How has the average age of MPs changed, depending on gender or party?
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As of the 2019 General Election, there had been nearly 23 million unique signatures since the formation of the e-petitions site.
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Early signs suggest that the 2019-21 session is not following recent trends - there’s been an average of just 0.75 paper petitions per sitting day.
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There's been a sharp rise in the number of UQs allowed per sitting day since 2009.
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After the 2019 General Election, 71 women were appointed to select committees, out of 222 places.
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Out of 63,621 candidates since 1918 - 8,780 have been women.
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This Insight explores written parliamentary questions tabled in June, the highest monthly figure in the last 10 years.
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This dataset presents UK general election results by constituency from 1918 onwards. It draws on several sources, described below, which may contain errors. For each constituency, the dataset includes the number of votes and vote share for different political parties, as well as the electorate and turnout. Turnout was calculated as valid votes divided by the electorate.
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This Commons Library Briefing Paper sets out results of the by-elections held in the 2017 Parliament. There were five by-elections in the two year Parliament, details can be found in the report. Full details are presented in the associated PDF but an overview of the recent by-election results are shown below.
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The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill has completed its passage through the House of Lords and is now awaiting Commons consideration of Lords amendments. This paper summarises amendments to the Bill during its passage through Parliament and provides information about procedures for Commons consideration of Lords amendments.
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This briefing paper contains detailed results and analysis of the 2018 Local Elections, held on 3 May. It provides election results by party & local authority, as well as analysis of estimated national equivalent vote share, party affiliation of councillors, historic council control, and more.
Total results (page 1 of 3)