2.2.3 The legislative process Quiz: Pearson Edexcel Politics, Unit 2

The 20 questions

1. What is the formal introduction stage of a bill in the UK Parliament called?

   • Second reading
   • First reading
   • Report stage
   • Committee stage

2. Which stage of a bill's passage involves a general debate on the principles of the bill?

   • Report stage
   • Committee stage
   • Second reading
   • Royal Assent

3. Which committee undertakes clause-by-clause scrutiny of a bill in the House of Commons?

   • Liaison committee
   • Select committee
   • Joint committee
   • Public bill committee

4. Which stage allows the full House to consider amendments made in committee?

   • Report stage
   • Pre-legislative scrutiny
   • First reading
   • Second reading

5. What final formality converts a bill passed by Parliament into an Act of Parliament?

   • Third reading
   • Royal prerogative
   • Executive veto
   • Royal Assent

6. Which convention stops the House of Lords blocking bills promised in a governing party's manifesto?

   • Salisbury Convention
   • Carltona Principle
   • Nolan Principles
   • Sewell Convention

7. What term describes a bill passing back and forth between Commons and Lords until agreement?

   • Guillotine motion
   • English votes
   • Filibustering
   • Parliamentary ping-pong

8. What motion allows an unfinished bill to continue into the next parliamentary session?

   • Money resolution
   • Carry-over motion
   • Programme motion
   • Closure motion

9. What is the final stage of a bill in its first House before passing to the second?

   • Report stage
   • Second reading
   • Committee stage
   • Third reading

10. What stage occurs when the Commons considers amendments made to a bill by the Lords?

    • Committee stage
    • Report stage
    • Consideration of amendments
    • First reading

11. What process allows a draft bill to be examined before formal introduction to Parliament?

    • Committee stage
    • Report stage
    • First reading
    • Pre-legislative scrutiny

12. Which stage of the legislative process immediately follows the committee stage of a bill?

    • First reading
    • Second reading
    • Royal Assent
    • Report stage

13. Which motion allows the government to set a strict timetable for a bill's stages?

    • Early day motion
    • Programme motion
    • Closure motion
    • Carry-over motion

14. What action can backbench MPs take during committee stage to alter a bill's wording?

    • Grant Royal Assent
    • Issue whips
    • Table amendments
    • Invoke Parliament Acts

15. Which stage of a bill's passage is typically used to propose and vote on detailed amendments line by line?

    • Royal Assent
    • Committee stage
    • Pre-legislative scrutiny
    • First reading

16. Which stage of a bill's passage is the formal introduction, with no substantive debate?

    • First reading
    • Second reading
    • Report stage
    • Third reading

17. What occurs when a public bill is defeated during its second reading?

    • It triggers an election
    • It bypasses the Lords
    • It returns immediately
    • It fails completely

18. Which traditional motion allows the government to cut short debate and force a vote?

    • Privilege motion
    • Guillotine motion
    • Early day motion
    • Carry-over motion

19. Which stage allows a bill to be considered again in its amended form in the House, before the final vote?

    • First reading
    • Pre-legislative scrutiny
    • Report stage
    • Royal Assent

20. Who, besides government ministers, can propose amendments to a bill during committee stage?

    • Civil servants
    • The monarch
    • Supreme Court justices
    • Backbench MPs

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