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	Online Etymology Dictionary
		In parliamentary use from 1850 (the v3rb in this sense is recorded from 1742), from the sense in fox-hunting.
		The parliamentary whip's duty originally was to ensure the attendance of party members on important occasions.
		Whipping boy first recorded 1647; whipping block is from c.1877.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?term=whip (81 words)

	United Kingdoms Ministers
		Labour MP 1974-79 and again from 1982, she was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Overseas Development 1974-75, Deputy Leader of Labour 1992-94, Acting leader after the death of John Smith, and she was a candidate for both the Leadership and the Deputy Leadership of Labour.
		She was Conservative MP 1984-2005, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State of Education and Science (1985-86), to the Minister of Overseas Development (1986-87) and to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1987-88).
		She was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of Transport 1985-87, to the Minister of State of Transport 1986-87 and to the Secretary of State of Transport 1987-88.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /United_Kingdom.htm (5523 words)

	Chief Whip's Annual Report 1997
		Whips have a specific responsibility to ensure that there is full attendance, that Committees are always quorate, and that the ANC is always properly represented.
		Whips are now dedicated to their appointed Committee, and do not generally sit on other Committees as regular members.
		While, in the past, we had no long-term view of the parliamentary political landscape and were often reacting to events which we had not anticipated, amid an atmosphere of confusion, we are now much more strategic in our approach, and are able to plan much more effectively for the days and weeks ahead.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/misc/chiefwhip.html (4649 words)

	Talk:United Kingdom Cabinet reshuffle, May 2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the interests of accuracy the Chief Whip attends cabinet, but is not part of the cabinet.
		The Chief Whip in the House of Lords is noted as attending but not being a member; but Smith is not in that category.
		The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury is commonly known as Chief Whip.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:UK_Cabinet_reshuffle,_May_2006 (566 words)

	pagovopp \| Houses of Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Whips have an important role in party business within Parliament, particularly when the voting strengths of the main parties are close, as in the 1992-1997 parliament.
		Failure by MPs to attend a vote with a three-line whip is usually seen as a rebellion against the party and may eventually result in disciplinary action, such as suspension from the parliamentary party.
		The Opposition Chief Whip receives advance notice of the Government's business programme each week, and no final decision is taken by the Government until after consultation with him or her.
	www.parliament.uk /works/pagovopp.cfm (1162 words)

	Monbiot.com » Break the Whip
		In response, the whips threatened to expose her private life in the tabloids.
		In March, when one of the government’s bills looked as if it would run out of parliamentary time, Labour MPs were forced to agree that the bill “shall be deemed to have been reported to the House … as if” its clauses and schedules “had been ordered to stand”.
		It seems to me that there is also a clear case for abandoning the entire parliamentary whipping system.
	www.monbiot.com /archives/2001/06/12/break-the-whip (1259 words)

	Press Releases / Information
		Not only is the Party Whip the parliamentary strategist with responsibility for ensuring the smooth passage of legislation and effective scrutiny thereof, a party Whip is also responsible for all party communications, human resource management, equipment, accommodation and all matters concerning the party.
		Committee Chairpersons and Whips must be available not only to attend meetings but to attend also to the many facets of Committee remits.
		For that reason, the State as employer has a legal and moral obligation to ensure that Members are adequately re-imbursed in respect of expenses and not hindered in discharging their duties.
	www.irlgov.ie /oireachtas/press/240398.htm (691 words)

	Tithe an Oireachtais - Debates - Questions
		The text of the current parliamentary debates 2004 --- is available at debates.oireachtas.ie.
		The civil servant in question is assigned to duties assisting the Whip and, as part of those responsibilities, when correspondence or calls come through from independent Deputies for me or concerning meetings with me or other Ministers he deals with them.
		The terms of reference have been the subject of discussion between the Whips and the formal motion will be put down for debate when these discussions are completed.
	www.irlgov.ie /debates-97/1oct97/ceist.htm (12740 words)

	Government Whips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Government Chief Whip is the Cabinet Minister responsible for timetabling and securing the passage of Bills through the House of Commons and successfully completing the Government's legislative programme.
		The Chief Whip is supported by 15 Government Ministers (Whips) who are responsible for delivering the Government's Parliamentary objectives on a daily basis.
		The Whips are also responsible for communicating the concerns of members to those departments to whom they have departmental responsibility.
	cabinetoffice.gov.uk /ministerial_responsibilities/government_whips (164 words)

	Research Starters: Go Government!
		In the United States the party whips are influential figures, but they do not have the power of their counterparts in Great Britain.
		The prime minister is chosen by members of the legislature (Parliament) from among their own number and in practice is the leader of the majority party in the legislature.
		If the prime minister loses the support of the majority in the legislature on a significant vote, he or she must resign, and elections are called immediately.
	teacher.scholastic.com /researchtools/researchstarters/presidents (1689 words)

	House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The organisation of debate is the responsibility of the Chief Whip, and not the Leader's or the Speaker.
		The Chief Whip is a member of a party whose responsibility is to carry out the functions of a whip on behalf of the party.
		A whip should convey warnings of possible trouble from the particular party, or criticisms of ministers or party leaders, to the Speaker or Leader of the House.
	www.parlzim.gov.zw /About_parliament/Procedures/House/body_house.html (886 words)

	pay faq page \| Houses of Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		House of Commons Library Research Paper 03/064 Parliamentary Pay and Allowances provides details of the formulae used to set levels of pay and allowances for MPs, Ministers and Peers and gives a summary of current levels.
		The present scheme, the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund, is governed by legislation made under the Parliamentary and Other Pensions Act 1987 [PGA 1987 chapter 45].Members pensions are currently based on their salary in the year prior to leaving the House.
		Available to meet the cost of completing outstanding parliamentary and constituency business undertaken by or on behalf of a former Member in the event of their death, defeat or retirement.
	www.parliament.uk /faq/pay_faq_page.cfm (1297 words)

	niknazmi.com » Blog Archive » Shahrir and the Whip
		I agree that as a general rule, the use of the Whip is justifiable.
		In the UK for example, Parliamentary committees including in the House of Lords are respected for the serious scrutiny they provide to all legislation.
		Another reason why defiance of the Whip occurs frequently in Westminster divisions is that constituency party associations are powerful in determining the selection of parliamentary candidates.
	www.niknazmi.com /wordpress/index.php/archives/240 (1349 words)

	Northern Ireland News - Rebel MP's should retake whip says Trimble supporter
		The three men had originally resigned the parliamentary whip in June in protest at party policy over the joint British and Irish Joint Declaration.
		The former East Londonderry MLA said the onus was now on the MPs to resume the party whip at Westminster.
		We will not be retaking the whip at Westminster, we are going to oppose the legislation linked to the joint declaration,'' he said.
	www.4ni.co.uk /industrynews.asp?ID=19819 (569 words)

	Carm Lino Spiteri
		Other achievements: He spent 17 years as parliamentary whip and 35 years as President of the Victoria Band Club in Mellieha.
		"The first time I met Lorry Sant face to face during a parliamentary session in 1971, I was smoking a cigarette outside parliament when all of a sudden somebody patted me on the shoulder," he recalls.
		Once again he was chosen to be parliamentary whip.
	www.maltatoday.com.mt /2001/0722/people.html (2149 words)

	full list of government ministers
		Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (also Scotland Office) - David Cairns MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State - Maria Eagle MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State - Paul Goggins MP Constitutional Affairs
		Deputy Chief Whip (Treasurer of HM Household) - Rt Hon Robert Ainsworth MP Government Whip (Comptroller of HM Household) - Rt Hon Thomas McAvoy MP Government Whip (Vice Chamberlain of HM Household) - John Heppell MP Junior Lords of the Treasury
		Deputy Chief Whip (Captain of The Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard) - Lord Davies of Oldham
	www.number-10.gov.uk /output/Page2988.asp (1004 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| Majority backs Trimble in vote
		The amendment tabled by Mr Trimble regretting their actions and calling on them to come back into the fold was passed with 443 supporting Mr Trimble's motion and 359 voting against it.
		The decision to call another council meeting was taken by party officers at their east Belfast headquarters last month.
		All three MPs were charged with breaking an undertaking which they signed when they stood for election to take the party whip, and with bringing the party into disrepute.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/northern_ireland/3085558.stm (640 words)

	S.I. No. 59/2003: Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices ...
		This Order may be cited as the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 1998 (Allowances and Allocations) Order 2003.
		The Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act, 1998 (Allowances and Allocations) Order 2001 (S.I. No. 377 of 2001) is revoked.
		Two new positions are provided for, however, namely Party Whip to Sinn Fein and Assistant Whip to the Progressive Democrats, as a result of their increased representation in the Dáil.
	www.irishstatutebook.ie /ZZSI59Y2003.html (883 words)

	Lim Kit Siang » Blog Archive » BN Whip Panel on “close-one-eye” scandal - has it locus standi?
		If the purpose of the Whips Panel is to decide whether Said had violated Barisan Nasional discipline, then the decision on the establishment and composition of the Inquiry Panel should be made by the Barisan Nasional Supreme Council and not the Cabinet.
		The purpose of the Whip in parliamentary system is to ensure the outcome of the vote in Parliament by party members in accordance with the party’s policies and directives.
		It is not purpose of the Whip – chief and assistant whip – to concern themselves with the conduct of a party member like Jasin MP outside parliament in respect of his interceding with the Malacca Customs and Excise Department over the illegal import of sawn timber from Indonesia on behalf of his own company.
	blog.limkitsiang.com /?p=537 (4041 words)

	Fear the Whip!
		In the UK, there is an agent known as a parliamentary whip in each party.
		His role is to enforce solidarity when the party votes in parliament, threatening dissenters with various punishments unless they abstain instead of voting for the other side, or so on.
		We have whips in the US Congress too, they are the second most powerful members in each party, after the party leaders (the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House).
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?t=13379 (1067 words)

	Special Feature By David Hinds
		I use the term "clear separation" because the fact that the President or Chief Executive is elected separate from, and is not obligated to, parliament does suggest separation of powers.
		Luncheon is correct when he posits that it is usual practice for legislative committees in both the Presidential and Parliamentary systems of government to reflect the balance of power among the parties in the legislature.
		There is no way around this principle as regards Standing Committees that are part of the legislative process; one cannot take away the government's majority in the legislative process without compromising the democratic integrity of the process.
	www.guyanacaribbeanpolitics.com /commentary/hinds_111701.html (1285 words)

	Publication main
		Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education and Government Whip
		Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Labour and Government Whip
		Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment
	www.parliament.gov.sg /parlweb/hansard_search_latest.jsp (676 words)

	Irish News
		Mr Donaldson said he would not be making an immediate decision on whether to resume the parliamentary whip.
		Party officers are now meeting to discuss the issue of disciplinary action against the three rebel MPs who resigned the parliamentary whip over the joint declaration.
		Some members feel they have already had enough time now to do this, but others are nervous about the impact disciplinary action could have on the party ahead of a possible election campaign.
	www.iais.org /shtmp.cfm?News_ID=3434 (1174 words)

	Northern Ireland News - Rebel MP's set to retake whip
		An announcement is expected over the weekend with the three members retaking the Parliamentary whip and returning to the House of Commons next week.
		However, the decision was criticised by DUP MP for North Belfast, Nigel Dodd's who claimed the men had put "party before their country".
		Mr Donaldson, Mr Burnside and Rev Smyth resigned the party whip in June claiming party leader David Trimble failed to endorse his policy on the joint British-Irish declaration.
	www.4ni.co.uk /industrynews.asp?id=21037 (395 words)

	::: u.tv :::
		Ulster Unionist Party officers confirmed their president, the Reverend Martin Smyth and David Burnside would be allowed to retake the whip.
		In a joint statement the MPs said: ``We wish to make it clear that whilst we will endeavour to work for greater unity within the Ulster Unionist Party and further with the wider unionist family, we remain steadfastly opposed to the implementation of the Belfast and Irish joint declaration.
		``We resigned the Parliamentary whip with our former Parliamentary colleague Jeffrey Donaldson so we would be free to vote against the legislative aspects of the joint declaration in September on the international monitoring commission which we believe will be toothless and ineffective and not capable of excluding Sinn Fein and its private army, the IRA.
	www.u.tv /newsroom/indepth.asp?id=41244&pt=n (714 words)

	Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics
		These tables list current and former women government whips and deputy speakers of both Houses.
		The Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees in the Lords is also Chairman of the Select Committee on the European Communities.
		The House of Lords normally has seven government whips and the Commons normally has five lords commissioner of the treasury and five assistant whips, though the present government has had as many as eight of the latter.
	www.qub.ac.uk /cawp/UKhtmls/whips_speakers.htm (173 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK Politics \| Cabinet reshuffle at-a-glance
		John Healey - Economic Secretary (was Parliamentary Under Secretary to the Department for Education and Skills)
		Lord Filkin - Junior Minister for Asylum and Immigration (was Lords Whip)
		Lord Grocott - Chief Whip in the Lords (was junior Lords Whip)
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk_politics/2014837.stm (452 words)

	[No title]
		Taiwan's opposition lambasted the scandal-embroiled President Chen Shui-bian, saying his fresh promise to push for a new constitution was part of efforts to distract public attention.
		The major opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT) and the PFP oppose a new constitution for fear it would anger Beijing, which regards Taiwan as part of its territory.
		The KMT's parliamentary party whip Tseng Yung-chuan said: "Chen Shui-bian's purpose is obvious.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /AFP/2006/AFP-140806.htm (388 words)

	The Muslim News
		Parliamentary Under Secretary of State of State - Angela E Smith MP
		Parliamentary Under Secretary of State - Lord Hunt of Kings Heath OBE
		Deputy Chief Whip (Treasurer of HM Household) - Rt Hon Robert Ainsworth MP
	www.muslimnews.co.uk /news/news.php?article=11018 (857 words)

	HMG
		PARLIAMENTARY UNDER- SECRETARY OF STATE-John Spellar MP SECRETARY OF STATE-Rt Hon David Blunkett MP (Minister for Employment, Welfare to Work and Equal Opportunities)- Rt Hon Andrew Smith MP (Minister for School Standards)- Ms Estelle Morris MP (Minister for Education and Employment)-Baroness Blackstone
		TREASURER (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)-Keith Bradley MP COMPTROLLER (Whip, House of Commons)-Thomas McAvoy MP VICE-CHAMBERLAIN (Whip, House of Commons)- Graham Allen MP CAPTAIN OF THE HONOURABLE CORPS OF GENTLEMEN-AT-ARMS (Chief Whip, House of Lords)-Lord Carter*
		(Deputy Chief Whip, House of Lords)-Lord McIntosh of Haringey
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm199798/cmwib/wb980801/hmg.htm (523 words)

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