Annual Conference
Annual Conference is the sovereign policy-making body of the Labour Party and the work of the National Policy Forum (NPF) is submitted to conference for agreement. The debates at conference are based around policy commission reports and documents.

In addition, topical issues are debated through contemporary resolutions and cover policy issues not covered by the work of the NPF.

Joint Policy Committee
Strategic oversight of policy development is undertaken by the Joint Policy Committee (JPC). Chaired by the Prime Minister, the JPC is made up of members of government, the National Executive Committee (NEC) and the NPF. It provides a link with all sections of the party, steering the NPF’s work and setting priorities and debates.

National Policy Forum
The NPF is one of the key institutions of the Partnership in Power process. It is made up of 183 representatives from all the major stakeholder groups in the party and is responsible for overseeing the policy development work in the party – drawing together the policy consultation documents and overseeing the consultation process to ensure maximum participation by all stakeholders.

The NPF meets two or three weekends a year to discuss in detail documents produced by the policy commissions. It submits three types of documents to conference: consultative, final policy documents and an annual report on the work of the policy commissions.

Elections to the NPF
Each of the sections of the NPF has its own method of electing NPF representatives. Nominations for the CLP section are invited from CLPs and are elected at Annual Conference.

Policy commissions
Following proposals from the PiP review report to conference, there are now six policy commissions which draw up policy reports for discussion by the JPC and the NPF.

Policy commissions have also been given new responsibilities to ensure engagement on topical issues as well as building and maintaining year-round dialogue with local parties.

The six policy commissions made up of 16-20 members representing the Government, the NEC and the NPF are:

- Britain in the World
- Creating Sustainable Communities
- Crime, Justice, Citizenship and Equalities
- Education and Skills
- Health
- Prosperity and Work

NPF representatives

Constituency Labour parties 55
Regions 22
Trade unions 30
MPs 9
MEPs 6
Peer 2
Government 8
Socialist societies 3
Labour Students 1
Cooperative Party 2
Black Socialist Societies 4
Local government 9
National Executive Committee 32
TOTAL 183