Standing committee (parliamentary system)

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]

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


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