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Dods Parliamentary Companion (formerly "Dod's Parliamentary Companion") is an annual politics reference book published in the United Kingdom. [1]It provides biographies and contact information on members of the Houses of Parliament and the Civil Service.
It is commonly called the Houses of Parliament after the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two legislative chambers which occupy the building. The palace is one of the centres of political life in the United Kingdom ; "Westminster" has become a metonym for the UK Parliament and the British Government , and the Westminster system of ...
Aerial view of the area of the Parliamentary Estate. The Parliamentary Estate is the land and buildings used by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.. The most notable part of the Parliamentary Estate is the Palace of Westminster, where the chambers of both houses of Parliament (the Commons and the Lords) are located. [1]
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After taking office Heseltine issued a circular enabling councils, if they chose, to sell houses at 30% discount and to offer 100% mortgages. The Housing Act 1980 enacting Right to Buy was delayed by a Lords amendment and did not reach the statute book until the end of 1980.
Downing Street is a street in Westminster in London that houses the official residences and offices of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In a cul-de-sac situated off Whitehall, it is 200 metres (660 ft) long, and a few minutes' walk from the Houses of Parliament.
Portcullis House (PCH) is an office building in Westminster, London, England, that was commissioned in 1992 and opened in 2001 to provide offices for 213 members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and their staff. The public entrance is on the Embankment.
Sir Charles Barry conceived the winning design for the New Houses of Parliament and supervised its construction until his death in 1860. (Portrait by John Prescott Knight) Westminster Bridge and Houses of Parliament, c. 1910. The Lords Chamber was completed in 1847, and the Commons Chamber in 1852 (at which point Barry received a knighthood).