Electronic Submissions to Parliament

Two Select Committees are trialling allowing people to send in their select committees electronically rather than physically having to post 20 copies in. This is to be welcomed and not before time. There has been informal methods of doing this in the past. When I worked in Parliament for National, we would offer an e-mail address people could electronically send submissions to, for key bills, and then just photocopy off the 20 copies ourselves. Of course only tended to do that for bills we were very against, to help get like minded submissions. We actually would copy and pass on supportive ones also.

The current rules would sometimes produce deep ironies. I recall when an ad appeared in newspapers on the reduction of paperwork bill, and called for 20 copies of submissions to be posted in 🙂

Anyway kudos to the Office of the Clerk for this initiative.

Hat Tip: No Right Turn