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John Connolly, Matthew Flinders, David Judge
Between 2017 and 2020 a comprehensive review of the framework ofinvestigatory scrutiny committees in the House of Lords was undertaken. Thisprocess led to a far-reaching set of recommendations and reforms. Althoughcarefully couched in the language of evolutionary change, this article arguesthat these reforms possess a transformational dynamic that is difficult todeny. The challenge, however, is likely to emerge from the existence of alargely hidden disjuncture between the accountability ambitions embeddedwithin this reform agenda and the institutional, constitutional and politicalmatrixes within which the‘new’committee system in the Lords is expectedto operate. A three-dimensional lens emphasising inter-, intra-, and extra-institutional dimensions is utilised to expose and dissect the existence ofpotential disjuncture and, through this, offers a‘review of the review’informed by broader literatures on legislative organisation and policy analysisthat will be of interest to both practitioners and scholars.
