The House of Commons is the more important of the two chambers in Parliament, and its
members are democratically elected. Nowadays the Prime Minister and almost all the
members of the Cabinet are members of the House of Commons. The members of the
House of Commons are called “Members of Parliament”, or MPs for short. Each MP
represents a parliamentary constituency, or area of the country: there are 646 of these.
MPs have a number of different responsibilities. They represent everyone in their
constituency, they help to create new laws, and they scrutinize and comment on what
government is doing, and they debate important national issues.

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