House of Commons committees

E96453

legislative committee parliamentary committee system

House of Commons committees are specialized groups of Members of Parliament that examine legislation, government policy, and public administration in detail on behalf of the UK House of Commons.

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All labels observed (11)

Label	Occurrences
House of Commons committees canonical	18
House of Commons select committees	8
House of Commons public bill committees	3
UK House of Commons committees	2
Backbench Business Committee	1
Committee of Parliament	1
Committees of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom	1
House of Commons joint committees	1
Public Bill Committees	1
Select Committees of the House of Commons	1
UK parliamentary committees	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	legislative committee ⓘ parliamentary committee system ⓘ
canSummon	civil servants ⓘ expert witnesses ⓘ ministers ⓘ
composedOf	Members of Parliament ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
governedBy	Standing Orders of the House of Commons ⓘ
hasFunction	conduct of inquiries ⓘ producing reports to the House of Commons ⓘ scrutiny of government policy ⓘ scrutiny of legislation ⓘ scrutiny of public administration ⓘ taking evidence from witnesses ⓘ
hasJurisdictionOver	UK government ⓘ surface form: United Kingdom government
hasNotableExample	Backbench Business Committee ⓘ Business and Trade Committee ⓘ Defence Committee ⓘ Education Committee ⓘ Environmental Audit Committee ⓘ Foreign Affairs Committee ⓘ Health and Social Care Committee ⓘ Home Affairs Committee ⓘ Liaison Committee ⓘ Petitions Committee ⓘ Privileges Committee ⓘ Procedure Committee ⓘ Public Accounts Committee ⓘ Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee ⓘ Science and Technology Committee ⓘ Standards Committee ⓘ Transport Committee ⓘ HM Treasury Select Committee ⓘ surface form: Treasury Committee Work and Pensions Committee ⓘ
hasType	ad hoc committee ⓘ committee of the whole House ⓘ general committee ⓘ joint committee ⓘ public bill committee ⓘ select committee ⓘ
locatedIn	Palace of Westminster ⓘ
mayPublish	committee reports ⓘ oral evidence transcripts ⓘ written evidence ⓘ
oversees	government departments ⓘ non-departmental public bodies ⓘ
partOf	House of Commons of the United Kingdom ⓘ
reportsTo	House of Commons chamber ⓘ surface form: House of Commons plenary
usesLanguage	English ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: House of Commons committees
Description of subject: House of Commons committees are specialized groups of Members of Parliament that examine legislation, government policy, and public administration in detail on behalf of the UK House of Commons.

Referenced by (38)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Standing Orders of the House of Commons → governsBody → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Westminster Hall debates → relatedTo → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: Backbench Business Committee

Standing Committees → subclassOf → House of Commons committees ⓘ

subject surface form: Standing Committees (India)

this entity surface form: Committee of Parliament

Committee rooms of the House of Commons → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: House of Commons select committees

Committee rooms of the House of Commons → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: House of Commons public bill committees

DUP Westminster group → participatesIn → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Committee Room 2 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Committee Room 3 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Committee Room 4 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Committee Room 5 → associatedWith → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: House of Commons select committees

UK Parliament publications → producedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: Select Committees of the House of Commons

UK Parliament publications → producedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: Public Bill Committees

Committee Room 1 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: House of Commons select committees

Committee Room 6 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Committee Room 13 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Committee Room 16 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: House of Commons select committees

Committee Room 7 → associatedWith → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: House of Commons select committees

Committee Room 7 → associatedWith → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: House of Commons public bill committees

Committee Room 7 → associatedWith → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: House of Commons joint committees

Committee Room 8 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Committee Room 9 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Committee Room 10 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Committee Room 15 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Committee Room 11 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: UK House of Commons committees

Committee Room 12 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: House of Commons select committees

Committee Room 12 → category → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: Committees of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom

Committee Room 14 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: House of Commons select committees

Committee Room 17 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Committee Room 19 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: UK House of Commons committees

Committee Room 19 → associatedWith → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: House of Commons select committees

Committee Room 19 → associatedWith → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: House of Commons public bill committees

Committee Room 21 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Committee Room 22 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Committee Room 23 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Committee Room 26 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Committee Room 26 → associatedWith → House of Commons committees ⓘ

this entity surface form: UK parliamentary committees

Committee Room 27 → associatedWith → House of Commons committees ⓘ

Committee Room 30 → usedBy → House of Commons committees ⓘ