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	<title>Comments on: Seeing Mr Speaker</title>
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	<description>Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green</description>
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		<title>By: glynwintle (Glyn Wintle)</title>
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		<dc:creator>glynwintle (Glyn Wintle)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reading &lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/lfeatherstone&quot;&gt;@lfeatherstone&lt;/a&gt; has asked the Speaker to set up a &#039;Free Our Bills&#039; Advisory Board at Parliament: http://bit.ly/46tTJ5</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reading <a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/lfeatherstone">@lfeatherstone</a> has asked the Speaker to set up a &#8216;Free Our Bills&#8217; Advisory Board at Parliament: <a href="http://bit.ly/46tTJ5" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/46tTJ5</a></p>
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		<title>By: delineator (Rob)</title>
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		<dc:creator>delineator (Rob)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reading &lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;http://twitter.com/lfeatherstone&quot;&gt;@lfeatherstone&lt;/a&gt; has asked the Speaker to set up a &#039;Free Our Bills&#039; Advisory Board at Parliament: http://bit.ly/46tTJ5</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reading <a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/lfeatherstone">@lfeatherstone</a> has asked the Speaker to set up a &#8216;Free Our Bills&#8217; Advisory Board at Parliament: <a href="http://bit.ly/46tTJ5" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/46tTJ5</a></p>
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		<title>By: Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #139</title>
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		<dc:creator>Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #139</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Seeing Mr Speaker on Lynne Feathersone MP&#8217;s blog. &#8220;Positive news on the attitude of John Bercow to [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Seeing Mr Speaker on Lynne Feathersone MP&#8217;s blog. &#8220;Positive news on the attitude of John Bercow to [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Loosemore</title>
		<link>http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2009/10/seeing-mr-speaker.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2359</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Loosemore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Really delighted you&#039;re pushing the Free Our Bills agenda with the Speaker. Thank you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Really delighted you&#8217;re pushing the Free Our Bills agenda with the Speaker. Thank you.</p>
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		<title>By: tomskitomski (Tom Loosemore)</title>
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		<dc:creator>tomskitomski (Tom Loosemore)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lynne Featherstone is my MP. When it comes to t&#039;Interweb, she rocks. See http://tinyurl.com/yfvob3j</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lynne Featherstone is my MP. When it comes to t&#8217;Interweb, she rocks. See <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yfvob3j" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/yfvob3j</a></p>
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		<title>By: Lynne Featherstone</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lynne Featherstone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If only Parliament worked like that! This is an attempt to bypass some of the barriers and procedural red tape that can snare anything lively forever.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If only Parliament worked like that! This is an attempt to bypass some of the barriers and procedural red tape that can snare anything lively forever.</p>
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		<title>By: Andrew Suffield</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andrew Suffield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am continually impressed by how the government manages to take months over the simplest of things. If it was down to me then I&#039;d just have implemented all this stuff as soon as it was suggested. I&#039;m not at all convinced that another committee is going to get anything done. Look at the Technology Advisory Board, which spent a great deal of time and effort in setting itself up, with proclamations of knowing specific things that needed doing (which we never saw), and at last report six months ago was trying to create a list of priorities, and hasn&#039;t really done anything but talk since then.

You don&#039;t need another committee. You need at least one person who is in a position to act to say &quot;What can I do this week that&#039;s useful? Okay, let&#039;s do that *now*&quot;. Take the &#039;free our bills&#039; thing as an example - they have some simple and clear issues with how the process works. If I was in a position where I was familiar with the systems and had access to the data (for example, the office that runs the parliament.uk website, but there are probably other places it could be done) and had no other demands on my time, then I would expect to have a prototype solution running by the end of the week, that dealt with most of their main objections (assuming a typical support workload, that would stretch out to 2-3 weeks). One month to run it past some sample users and stakeholders, get comments, fix issues they raise. Deployment time would depend on procedures, but should be no more than two months after that. The only thing that matters here is to get somebody to sit down and do it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am continually impressed by how the government manages to take months over the simplest of things. If it was down to me then I&#8217;d just have implemented all this stuff as soon as it was suggested. I&#8217;m not at all convinced that another committee is going to get anything done. Look at the Technology Advisory Board, which spent a great deal of time and effort in setting itself up, with proclamations of knowing specific things that needed doing (which we never saw), and at last report six months ago was trying to create a list of priorities, and hasn&#8217;t really done anything but talk since then.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t need another committee. You need at least one person who is in a position to act to say &#8220;What can I do this week that&#8217;s useful? Okay, let&#8217;s do that *now*&#8221;. Take the &#8216;free our bills&#8217; thing as an example &#8211; they have some simple and clear issues with how the process works. If I was in a position where I was familiar with the systems and had access to the data (for example, the office that runs the parliament.uk website, but there are probably other places it could be done) and had no other demands on my time, then I would expect to have a prototype solution running by the end of the week, that dealt with most of their main objections (assuming a typical support workload, that would stretch out to 2-3 weeks). One month to run it past some sample users and stakeholders, get comments, fix issues they raise. Deployment time would depend on procedures, but should be no more than two months after that. The only thing that matters here is to get somebody to sit down and do it.</p>
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