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Examples of Committees holding Govt to account or not!
Write example of holding the Govt to account via committtees
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Committees consider government policy and they scrutinise the work and expenditure of the government. They also examine proposals and legislations.
They are effective because they spend significant time looking at fine details in smaller groups. They can also hear from experts and gather details.

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Ineffective- Committees tend to have more representatives from one political party than others (the SNP dominates most of the committees.)

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COVID-19 Committee is currently reporting on the Scottish Government’s response to COVID-19 and is taking evidence from the Coronavirus Acts to scrutinise the government.

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Committees play a big role in examining the government as there is only one chamber whereas west minister is bicameral

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They are not effective because SNP dominates most committees such as health even though it is chaired by a labour MSP

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Majority of committees such as education committee have SNP convenors such as James Dornan as SNP have the greatest representation in parliament

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Committees scrutise the work of the government breaking down the fine details of potential proposals for legislation

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Committees scrutise the work of the government breaking down the fine details of potential proposals for legislation

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Girls from this school met with the education committee and attended the meetings to express their opinions on the school going co-ed and it was holding the government accountable as they weren’t bothering to ask how anyone (from the school that was going to be affected) felt about it.

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Committees are effective example ; since June 2020 the committee have been currently dealing with harassment complaints against he Scottish Government and Former First Minster, Alex Salmond.

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Committees can be not effective as if there is a majority government e.g. SNP the MSPs of the majority government can dominate the committee even though it may be ran by another party

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committees cannot be effective because they can sometimes be biased if more party members are in one committee than another

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committees cannot be effective because they can sometimes be biased if more party members are in one committee than another