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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- ^ "Standing Committees". politics.co.uk. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
- ^ "Select Committees". politics.co.uk. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
- ^ "Committee Name History". congress.gov. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
- ^ "List of Committees". ourcommons.ca. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
- ^ Kanwar, Sanat (19 September 2019). "The Importance of Parliamentary Committees". prsindia.org. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
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