Standing Committee (Parliamentary System)

Short description: Permanent legislative panel

A standing committee is a permanent committee made up of a small number of parliamentary members appointed to analyse and opine on issues in a specific area of government, such as, for example, finance, justice, or education.^[1] Its counterpart is a select committee, which is erected to investigate or solve a specific problem, and, upon conclusion, is dissolved.^[2]

Standing committees exist in the British Parliament, as well as in other parliaments based on the Westminster model or those borrowing from it, such as the US,^[3] Canada,^[4] and India.^[5]

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[1] "Standing Committees". https://www.politics.co.uk/reference/standing-committees/.

[2] "Select Committees". https://www.politics.co.uk/reference/select-committees/.

[3] "Committee Name History". https://www.congress.gov/help/committee-name-history.

[4] "List of Committees". https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/List.

[5] Kanwar, Sanat (19 September 2019). "The Importance of Parliamentary Committees". https://prsindia.org/theprsblog/importance-parliamentary-committees.

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