Comments on: e-Petitions http://lordsoftheblog.net/2008/05/20/e-petitions/ Life and Work in the House of Lords Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:26:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: baronessmurphy http://lordsoftheblog.net/2008/05/20/e-petitions/comment-page-1/#comment-820 baronessmurphy Fri, 23 May 2008 18:24:55 +0000 http://lordsoftheblog.wordpress.com/?p=338#comment-820 The politically independent peers' (Crossbenchers) website, at http://213.52.137.147/interests.html gives you a list of crossbench peers' interests. We love hearing from people and organisations in our own field. This list provides a contact person to ask questions in parliament on YOUR particular topic. You'll see me listed in health, health service and third age. I ought to be in medicine as well, I'll let them know... The politically independent peers’ (Crossbenchers) website,
at http://213.52.137.147/interests.html gives you a list of crossbench peers’ interests. We love hearing from people and organisations in our own field. This list provides a contact person to ask questions in parliament on YOUR particular topic. You’ll see me listed in health, health service and third age. I ought to be in medicine as well, I’ll let them know…

]]> By: lordnorton http://lordsoftheblog.net/2008/05/20/e-petitions/comment-page-1/#comment-819 lordnorton Wed, 21 May 2008 19:56:56 +0000 http://lordsoftheblog.wordpress.com/?p=338#comment-819 Adrian: If you wanted to get hold of lists of peers grouped under particular interests, they are published in Dod's Parliamentary Companion. If you have access to a copy, that will save you having to look at committee memberships and waiting for changes to the website. I will, though, feed in your suggestion. Adrian: If you wanted to get hold of lists of peers grouped under particular interests, they are published in Dod’s Parliamentary Companion. If you have access to a copy, that will save you having to look at committee memberships and waiting for changes to the website. I will, though, feed in your suggestion.

]]> By: Adrian Kidney http://lordsoftheblog.net/2008/05/20/e-petitions/comment-page-1/#comment-818 Adrian Kidney Wed, 21 May 2008 13:32:26 +0000 http://lordsoftheblog.wordpress.com/?p=338#comment-818 Thanks very much! That's a very useful link. I suppose I could throw a suggestion out that it may be useful to have a facility whereupon you could sort these hundreds of Peers into groupings of their interests? It's a hassle to sift through the biographies to find peers with similar interests. I know you don't have anything to do with the Parliamentary website, but perhaps one of the boffins in PICT could get onto it? That said, I guess you could also look at the membership of various Lords committees. Thanks very much! That’s a very useful link. I suppose I could throw a suggestion out that it may be useful to have a facility whereupon you could sort these hundreds of Peers into groupings of their interests? It’s a hassle to sift through the biographies to find peers with similar interests. I know you don’t have anything to do with the Parliamentary website, but perhaps one of the boffins in PICT could get onto it?

That said, I guess you could also look at the membership of various Lords committees.

]]> By: lordnorton http://lordsoftheblog.net/2008/05/20/e-petitions/comment-page-1/#comment-817 lordnorton Wed, 21 May 2008 09:13:21 +0000 http://lordsoftheblog.wordpress.com/?p=338#comment-817 Adrian: the Register of Lords' Interests is available online, but the entries are not necessarily that helpful for indicating the political interests of peers. For those, your best source is the biographical details of peers available on the Parliament website at: http://www.parliament.uk/directories/house_of_lords_information_office/alphabetical_list_of_members.cfm Adrian: the Register of Lords’ Interests is available online, but the entries are not necessarily that helpful for indicating the political interests of peers. For those, your best source is the biographical details of peers available on the Parliament website at:

http://www.parliament.uk/directories/house_of_lords_information_office/alphabetical_list_of_members.cfm

]]> By: Adrian Kidney http://lordsoftheblog.net/2008/05/20/e-petitions/comment-page-1/#comment-816 Adrian Kidney Wed, 21 May 2008 08:36:48 +0000 http://lordsoftheblog.wordpress.com/?p=338#comment-816 I suppose the issue is that it's easy to pinpoint who your MP is, and given the vast majority of the Cabinet is comprised of MPs, people tend to gravitate towards grabbing the attention of those with the power. Understandable, as you say, Lord Norton. I should see about petitioning Peers about concerns I may have. The register of Lords' interests is online somewhere, I think...am I right? Using that we could pinpoint Peers with an interest in what the petition is about. In my case, my main interests are constitutional questions, on which I am largely cautious and conservative (note small 'c'), and seeing as the Lords tend to be the defenders and the Commons the changers, I suppose I should maybe focus on discouraging reforming MPs! I suppose the issue is that it’s easy to pinpoint who your MP is, and given the vast majority of the Cabinet is comprised of MPs, people tend to gravitate towards grabbing the attention of those with the power. Understandable, as you say, Lord Norton.

I should see about petitioning Peers about concerns I may have. The register of Lords’ interests is online somewhere, I think…am I right? Using that we could pinpoint Peers with an interest in what the petition is about.

In my case, my main interests are constitutional questions, on which I am largely cautious and conservative (note small ‘c’), and seeing as the Lords tend to be the defenders and the Commons the changers, I suppose I should maybe focus on discouraging reforming MPs!

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