Jane White – Committee on the Merits of Statutory Instruments
Currently one of two advisers to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Merits of Statutory Instruments, which publishes a weekly commentary on all the orders and regulations laid before Parliament by the Government (approx 1200 per year). Her role is to investigate the policy behind this "secondary legislation" for the information of the Committee's 11 members and to draw their attention to any legislation which seems to be flawed or might be of interest to the House.
Jane is the classic "gamekeeper turned poacher", having previously spent 20 years in a range of Government Departments as a policy official producing legislation, negotiating and implementing European Directives and even doing a stint as a parliamentary clerk.
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