ABSTRACT
The House of Commons is a collection of 635 persons each elected by a relative majority vote of the adult inhabitants of a geographical division of the country. If Members were to become specialists in particular fields of governmental activity and exercise a more effective supervision over the workings of government, they would indeed find it difficult to combine parliamentary duties with other activities. Nearly every Member of Parliament in one of the major parties is a potential minister, and at any given time a number of members of the House of Commons are ministers. Constitutional theory provides no scope for the representation through Parliament of the nations of the United Kingdom as such, and still less for the regions of England. The increasing scale and complexity of modern government impose on Parliament demands of a new order, if it is adequately to perform its traditional function of safeguarding the public interest and in particular the public's money.
