Tag Archives: YouTube

Are the Lords listening?

Hansard Society 15/07/2009 – 10:54 am

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 enable members of the public to communicate with it. And today we publish our report Are the Lords lis […]

People and Parliament: an update

Hansard Society 12/06/2009 – 11:06 am

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 a one hour debate in the Lords this coming Tuesday evening, 16 June, on this subj […]

Guest blog: The Lord Speaker

Baroness Hayman 16/06/2008 – 8:00 am

Given my enthusiastic support for the Lords of the Blog project, when it was suggested by one of the users of the site that I should explain more about my role, I was very happy to respond - specially since this is a “guest spot”, which means I don’t have to show the same impressive ongoing commitment as the original Lords bloggers. It is a good opportunity for me to explain some of the thin […]