Websites, Research Papers, Standard Notes and Fact Sheets on topics of parliamentary interest.

This section aims to supply a quick response on subjects and provide an update important developments across Commonwealth Parliaments.

Administration and Financing of Parliament

• Administration and Financing of Parliament -summary report
• Parliament: Master of its own Household?
• Report of Review Team on A Review of the New Zealand Parliamentary Service Act to the Parliamentary Service Commission.
• U.K. House of Commons Administration fact sheet.

Commonwealth Declarations and Communiqués

Ethics and Conduct

• Western Australia, Ministerial Code of Conduct. 
• Northwest Territories (Canada) Members' Conduct Guidelines. 
• Ontario (Canada)Members’ Integrity Act 1994.
• Uganda, Code of Conduct for MPs.
• U.K., The Code of Conduct for MPs
• Links relating to standards in public life

Freedom of Information

• Read the CPA/WBI Study Group's Recommendations for Transparent Governance.
• Implementing Freedom of Information in the Caribbean

  • View  50th CPA Plenary Conference presentations on the Right to Information: Best Practice Law-Making Principles and The Right to Know.  
• Article XIX Model Freedom of Information Law.
• Carter Center's Access to Information: A Key for Democracy.
• CHRI's Open Sesame: Looking for the Right to Information in the Commonwealth.
• Commonwealth Secretariat's Model Law.
• Privacy International's 2004 Global Survey: Freedom of Information and Access to Government Records Around the World.
• UNDP's Access to Information Practice Note.

General

• Australia - House of Representatives Infosheets.
• Publications produced by the New South Wales Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly.
• The Parliamentary Library of New South Wales research publications
• Research Papers and Bills Digests produced by the New Zealand Parliamentary Library.

Governance

• Development Gateway Governance.
• WBI Governance and Anti-Corruption Homepage.
• WBI One-page Briefs on Corruption.
  WBI Governance Databank.

Legislation

• Factsheets from the U.K. House of Commons.

Members

• Factsheets from the U.K. House of Commons.
• Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha (India).

Parliamentary Privilege

• Australian Government Guidelines for Official Witnesses before Parliamentary Committees and Related Matters - November 1989
• Parliament of Australia. House of Representatives Factsheet No. 5.
• Parliament of Australia. Parliamentary Library Research Paper 1 2000-01.
• Australia.Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory: Information Paper No. 7.
• India. Rajya Sabha. Parliamentary Privileges.

Parliament and the Constitution

• Central Government in the United Kingdom
• Consitutional Affairs in the United Kingdom
• Elections in the United Kingdom
• Parliament in the United Kingdom.

Parliament, the Executive and the Judiciary

• Commonwealth (Latimer House) Principles on the Three Branches of Government.

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP)

• Presentations and documents from the CPA/DFID Workshop on Strengthening Legislatures in West Africa.

Procedure

• Australia - Brief Guides to Senate Procedure.
• Rodgers Senate Practice Tenth Edition.
• Australia - House of Representatives  Practice.
• Australia - House of Representatives ShortGuide to Procedures.
• Australia - House of Representatives Proceduralpublications and submissions.
• New South Wales (Australia) -  Legislative Assembly Practice & Procedure Book.
• New South Wales (Australia) -  Legislative Assembly Short Guide to Procedures.
• Alberta (Canada) -Members' Guide to House Procedure. 
• India -Lok Sabha Procedure Abstract Series.
• United Kingdom -Factsheets from the U.K. House of Commons.

Science and Technology

• U.K. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology publications on Biological sciences and health, Environment and energy, Physical sciences and IT and Science policy.

Trade

• Parliament and the International Trading System.
• CPA/WTO Regional Workshops for Parliamentarians.
• Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics.
• The Doha Development Agenda Negotiations
• Services Negotiation
• WTO agriculture negotiations
• Non-Agricultural Market Access
• Overview of the Multilateral Trading System and Introduction to the basic principles of the WTO
• What is the WTO?
• The Future of the WTO. Report by a Consultative Board to the WTO Director-General.

Women in Parliament

• Study Group on Gender-Sensitizing Commonwealth Parliaments.
• Commonwealth Plan of Action for Gender Equality 2005-2015.