Good news. I have secured time for a debate in the Lords on this Wednesday afternoon from 3.45pm on our report ‘Are the Lords Listening? Creating connections between people and Parliament’. Our report has certainly had some effect. Members of the House of Lords and the Administration are using the internet much more to describe…
The Queen’s speech on this Wednesday will give us the programme of Bills that the Government intends to introduce in the six months before the 2010 election campaign starts. I am thinking of speaking in the debate next week on Business which is stangely allied in the programme for the day with Culture. I would…
I am writing this blog because I am a member of a House of Lords select committee that has recently published a report on the Future of European Union Financial Regulation and Supervision. We are debating this report tomorrow, TUESDAY, and it brings up some serious questions. After the financial crisis of the last year,…
After all the dreadful stories in the past months about Parliament, I’m very pleased to bring you a piece of good news today! As many of you will know, our Information Committee has been carrying out an inquiry into how the House of Lords and Parliament as a whole can engage with the public and…
As Chairman of the Lords Information Committee, I want to tell you how we have got on in our Inquiry on “How can we improve the relations between Parliament and the Public?”. Obviously, this is now a sixty-four dollar question. Since we started in March we’ve received many many comments from people. We’re now having…
