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Welcome to The Democracy Forum
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Welcome to the Democracy Forum - an online public space provided by The Hansard Society for the debate of issues concerning parliamentary democracy in the UK.
The Hansard Society promotes effective parliamentary democracy. It is an independent, non-partisan educational charity whose President is the Rt Hon. Michael Martin MP, Speaker of the House of Commons. There are many issues concerning parliament, legislation and democratic citizenship which call for intelligent public debate. This web site is intended as one forum for that debate to take place. It is open to all citizens, but there are rules of debate which we ask all participants to follow. This is a monitored debate.
Debates taking place in the Democracy Forum will be the subject of research and evaluation as part of our Parliament and the Electronic Media programme. If you have comments about the form, style, content or value of the Democracy Forum, please let us know.
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The Seniorspeak online consultation ran from 14th June to 31st July 2002, building discussion between older people, their families, carers and associates on the subject of long term care and related issues. Seniorspeak feeds into the work of the All-Party Group on Ageing in Westminster, and the Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Older People. The Hansard Society's report on Seniorspeak will be published in the autumn.
With any queries about Seniorspeak, or to be kept informed about progress, please contact the co-ordinator Melissa McCarthy on 0207 955 - 7458, or via email at melissa@seniorspeak.org.
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This was the first Parliamentary online forum about a draft Bill - it
was genuinely useful to the Parliament's Joint Committee on the
draft Communications Bills and will result in better law. Your interest
and, more importantly, your contributions were needed, from as wide a range of
views as possible. Contributions were summarised and
reported back to the Committee regularly. It was also possible to watch part of the
Committee meetings - on the web. Click on Commbill.net button to learn more. |
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This forum has been set up to collect evidence for the Information Committee's Inquiry into information and communication technologies and the work of the House of Commons. The Committee, under the chairmanship of Michael Fabricant MP, will collect evidence between now and the end of May and will produce a report for Parliament in June/July 2002. Contributions to this forum will be taken into account in the report. The specialist adviser to this inquiry is Dr Stephen Coleman, who can be contacted at edemocracy@lse.ac.uk Please click on the title to join in.
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- Have you had experience of flooding?
- Do you have views on the causes of floods in your communities and ideas on how they could be prevented?
- Do you work in flood management?
Floodforum.net ran for four weeks from Monday 21 January until Sunday 17 February. The objective of floodforum.net is to stimulate discussion on the causes, consequences and communication aspects of inland flooding in the UK to inform Parliamentary debate on flooding.
Floodforum.net - online discussion commissioned by Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.
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On 7 March 2001 The House of Lords appointed a Select Committee on Stem Cell Research to consider and report on issues connected with human cloning and stem cell research arising from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Research Purposes) Regulations 2001. In conjunction with traditional forms of evidence-gathering, the Committee has appointed the Hansard Society to undertake an online consultation, designed to encourage wider debate of the issues.
The Committee is keen for informed individuals, who may or may not have had prior involvement in the debate around stem cell research, to participate in the consultation.
For further information email Beccy Earnshaw or call 0207 9557486.
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| Uspeak was an online consultation collecting evidence for the Social Security Select Committee on tax credits, benefits, child-care and work incentives. Uspeak is closed to new users. Registered useres can continue to read contributions to the discussion. |
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| The Hansard Society has established this Commission, chaired by Lord Newton of Braintree, to examine how effectively Parliament scrutinises the work of government and holds the executive to account for its actions. The Commission is taking evidence from a wide range of people. This discussion was a chance for anybody to make their contribution to the debate. The inputs to the discussions can be viewed in the archive by clicking here. |
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| The Information Select Committee has been looking into the changes needed in the strategy for making Parliamentary information available to a wide range of users and took evidence via this Democracy Forum. The inputs to the discussions can be viewed in the archive by clicking here.
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| This Democracy Forum Discussion was set up with the All Party Committee on Domestic Violence and enquired into all aspects of domestic violence from the survivors themselves. The discussion is now complete and the evidence is being prepared to go to the Committee. The discussion remains here in a read only form but is available only to authorised visitors. |
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| This Democracy Forum Discussion was set up with support from the Public Administration Select Committee and enquiring into all aspects of electronic democracy. The discussion is now complete and the evidence has been submitted to the Select Committee. The discussion remains here in a read only form but is available only to authorised visitors |
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If you think that there is an issue of this kind that should be debated in the Democracy Forum please Let us know
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