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House of Lords Official Report Vol. 760 Wednesday No. 112 4 March 2015 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICIAL REPORT ORDER OF BUSINESS Questions Legislative Scrutiny: Digitalisation ....................................................................................................................................................211 Sudan: Bombardment of Civilians ..................................................................................................................................................213 Regulatory Agencies: Monitoring......................................................................................................................................................216 Defence Budget ...................................................................................................................................................................................217 National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015........................................................................................................................................220 Groceries Code Adjudicator (Permitted Maximum Financial Penalty) Order 2015 ....................................................................220 Electronic Commerce Directive (Financial Services and Markets) (Amendment) Order 2015 ..................................................221 Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2015....................................................................221 Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Banking Reform) (Pensions) Regulations 2015.....................................................221 Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2015 Motions to Approve............................................................................................................................................................................221 Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Bill Order of Commitment Discharged ....................................................................................................................................................221 Modern Slavery Bill Third Reading ......................................................................................................................................................................................221 Deregulation Bill Third Reading ......................................................................................................................................................................................249 Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Bill First Reading ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................308 Corporation Tax (Northern Ireland) Bill First Reading .......................................................................................................................................................................................308 Civil Proceedings and Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment) Order 2015 Motion to Approve .............................................................................................................................................................................308 Grand Committee Single Use Carrier Bags Charges (England) Order 2015 Motion to Consider .....................................................................................................................................................................GC 49 Public Bodies (Abolition of the Advisory Committees on Pesticides) Order 2015 Motion to Consider .....................................................................................................................................................................GC 66 Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2015 Motion to Consider .....................................................................................................................................................................GC 70 Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Northern Ireland) (Biometric data) Order 2015 Motion to Consider .....................................................................................................................................................................GC 75 Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Schedule 5) Order 2015 Motion to Consider .....................................................................................................................................................................GC 80 Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2015 Motion to Consider .....................................................................................................................................................................GC 81 Independent Schools: Variety and Diversity Question for Short Debate..............................................................................................................................................................GC 84 £4·00 Lords wishing to be supplied with these Daily Reports should give notice to this effect to the Printed Paper Office. 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The first time a Member speaks to a new piece of parliamentary business, the following abbreviations are used to show their party affiliation: Abbreviation Party/Group CB Cross Bench Con Conservative Con Ind Conservative Independent DUP Democratic Unionist Party GP Green Party Ind Lab Independent Labour Ind LD Independent Liberal Democrat Ind SD Independent Social Democrat Lab Labour Lab Ind Labour Independent LD Liberal Democrat LD Ind Liberal Democrat Independent Non-afl Non-affiliated PC Plaid Cymru UKIP UK Independence Party UUP Ulster Unionist Party No party affiliation is given for Members serving the House in a formal capacity, the Lords spiritual, Members on leave of absence or Members who are otherwise disqualified from sitting in the House. © Parliamentary Copyright House of Lords 2015, this publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 211 Legislative Scrutiny: Digitalisation[4 MARCH 2015] Legislative Scrutiny: Digitalisation 212 agree that over the course of this Parliament, Twitter House of Lords has proved a great way of communicating the important job that is done in this House? Wednesday, 4 March 2015. Baroness Stowell of Beeston: Yes, I do agree with 3pm the noble Baroness. It is important to distinguish Prayers—read by the Lord Bishop of Norwich. between the use of new technology to engage with the public and the use of technology to help us to do our job better; sometimes they serve different purposes. Legislative Scrutiny: Digitalisation The arrival of the new digital director for Parliament Question later this month will, I hope, see all these things taken forward with great speed. 3.06 pm Asked by Baroness Deech Lord Low of Dalston (CB): My Lords, will the To ask the Leader of the House what assessment Leader of the House make sure, in implementing the she has made of the impact on the effectiveness of changes that she is talking about, that the needs of the scrutiny of legislation of the introduction of those who access the information using access technology further digitalisation. are not forgotten? I am sure these developments can be very beneficial for people using access technology, The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Stowell of Beeston) but we have to make sure that we do it in the right way, (Con): My Lords, I have not made any formal assessment not the wrong way. of the impact of digitalisation on scrutiny, but I welcome initiatives from the House of Lords administration Baroness Stowell of Beeston: The noble Lord is that take advantage of digital developments, and the right. Not only do we need to make sure that those Government’s good law project continues to look to who use access technology are well served alongside improve the process of scrutiny using new technologies. any new technological developments; we also need to make sure that those of us who rely on paper and Baroness Deech (CB): May I explain for the sake of prefer to do our work in an analogue fashion are able clarity that by digitalisation I mean the use of computers? to do so. At the same time, we do not want to be Would it not be a great advantage to the House that behind innovation,
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