The Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill 2022-23
The Data Protection and Digital Information (No.2) Bill was introduced in the House of Commons on 8 March 2023.

This note discusses the conventions that have developed as a result of the relationship between individual Members and their constituencies. It covers the issues of constituency casework, raising matters relating to another Member’s constituency in the House, and visits and speaking engagements in other constituencies. The Note deals also with the related matter of local precedence.
Members and Constituency Etiquette (577 KB , PDF)
In the British parliamentary system one Member represents a single constituency, and conventions have developed so that one Member’s relations with his or her constituents are very much a preserve other Members should not interfere with.
The conventions dealing with these matters are not the subject of formal parliamentary rules.
The general principle in relation to constituency casework was set out by Edmund Marshall, a former MP, in his 1982 book Parliament and the Public: “any citizen in the United Kingdom should first get in touch with his own constituency representative”. He continued:
There are nuances and some potential areas of overlap but Speaker Martin considered that “It is best to leave it to the good sense of Members to work out any problems between them”.
Some issues might be more appropriately dealt with by local councillors or members of devolved legislatures, but a constituent can write to whichever representative he or she chooses.
Guidance for ministers on raising constituency matters can be found in the Ministerial Code.
By convention Members intending to visit another constituency, other than on a purely private or personal matter, should inform the relevant Member. Guidance has been given from the Chair and has been set out in Rules of behaviour and courtesies in the House of Commons, issued by the Speaker and Deputy Speakers:
Guidance for ministers on official visits can be found in the Ministerial Code.
Members and Constituency Etiquette (577 KB , PDF)
The Data Protection and Digital Information (No.2) Bill was introduced in the House of Commons on 8 March 2023.
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