Radical Plans for Family Court Changes?

 "What shall we tell the children?"
Speech by Harriet Harman MP
Minister of State for Constitutional Affairs
19 June 2006
"One of my concerns is that in parliament we spend a lot of
time discussing legislation without institutionalising what I want
to call "post-legislative scrutiny". We need not just to get the
policy right and get the legislation to match the policy. We also
need to discover whether the legislation, when implemented,
has had the effect that we intended and has not had unintended
unwelcome consequences. We do, of course, have the very
important select committee system. But what I am talking about
is the government itself making itself accountable for reviewing
and reporting back on how legislation is working."