DMPQ- Parliamentary control over executive is on decline. Discuss the factors responsible for it.

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In reality the parliamentary control over the executive is more theoretical than practical. The following factors are responsible for this:

  • The administration has grown in volume and the Parliament has neither the time nor the expertise to control it.
  • Parliamentarians are usually laymen who face difficulty in understanding the demands for grants which is technical in nature.
  • The Executive enjoys legislative leadership owing
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to majority support. Consequently, it plays a significant role in formulating policies and minimises the possibility of effective criticism.
  • The public expenditure is examined by the committees after it has been incurred not before it.
  • The scope of financial control has also been reduced due to increased recourse to ‘guillotine’.
  • The expansion of ‘delegated legislation’ has increased the powers of the bureaucracy and reduced the law making powers of the parliament.

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