Is this a first? An email has just popped into a colleague’s inbox stating:
The Joint Committee on the draft Care and Support Bill, chaired by Paul Burstow MP, is conducting pre-legislative scrutiny into the draft Bill and the policies it seeks to implement.
That would be the draft bill written by one Paul Burstow MP?
Does anyone else know of any examples of former ministers chairing scrutiny committees over their own bill?
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