Coalition Report Card at Half Term Stage.....

Apparently the Coalition is going to release a report card setting out what it has achieved tomorrow.

I thought I would give them a helping hand so far as constitutional reform is concerned:53% achieved at this 1/2 way stage is not bad..................

5 year fixed term Parliaments	ACHIEVED
Referendum on Electoral Reform	ACHIEVED – although Lib Dems essentially lost referendum and there has been no actual reform
Power of recall of MPs	NOT ACHIEVED - Coalition is reconsidering this.
Committee to bring forward reforms to House of Lords by end of 2010	ACHIEVED – although proposed reform will not happen
Implement wholesale reform of Commons	ACHIEVED to some degree
Reduce Electoral fraud	NO IDEA
Reform Parliamentary privilege so that it is not misused by wrongdoers	NOT ACHIEVED – but then the Court have ensured that nobody has misused it.
Cut the Perks and bureaucracy associated with Parliament	SOME ACHIEVEMENT
Consult with IPSA over ending MPs final salary pensions scheme	ACHIEVED – i.e. they have consulted – but not ended the scheme
200 Postal Primaries for MP selection	NOT SURE – don’t know what happened to this interesting idea.  Torries appear to gone off it given independent nature of the MP for Totnes chosen by this method.
Parliamentary Petitions	ACHIEVED - and working well
Public Reading Stage in Parliament	ACHIEVED  - http://publicreadingstage.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/
Improve Civil Servants	HOW DO WE TELL?
Limit SPADS	NOT ACHIEVED  - number of SPADs has increased
Reform Civil Service Compensation Scheme	ACHIEVED
Further Referendum in Wales on devolution	NOT ACHIEVED
Establish a Commission to examine the West Lothian question	ACHIEVED - to report in Spring 2013