Writer reporting parliamentary assents gets permit (9)
I believe the answer is:
authorise
'permit' is the definition.
(authorising is a kind of permiting)
'writer reporting parliamentary assents gets' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'writer' could be 'author' (synonyms) and 'author' is present in the answer.
'gets' could be 'is' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'is' is located in the answer.
A single letter 'e' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for authorise that I've seen before include "licence" , "Empower, permit" , "Sanction, empower" , "OK" , "commission" .)