Love love LOVE that sig quote!
On 23 March 2010 15:14, Adam McGreggor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 02:50:04PM +0000, Juliet Samuel wrote: > > Parliament releases an annual report detailing various stats about volume > > and number of legislative acts (as well as gender, ethnic, background > makeup > > of parliament etc). As far as I know it's only available in pdf - I will > try > > to find the link and email it when I have a moment. > > > > The key thing in the latest report, as you say Adam, is volume - the > number > > of acts in the last 13 years is actually lower, but the number of pages > in > > the acts and use of statutory instruments has gone up massively. > > And codes of practice issued persuant to Section X of Bill Y. > > Yet compare the volume of Bills with the amount of scrutiny each > receives. > > (Would it be great for someone to calculate > "this Bill received X hours in the chambers, Y in Select Committee" > "it ping-ponged Z times (as did N other Bills in that Parliament)" > a total of 11seconds per clause!) > > -- > ``The Minister's office rang back saying that he would be delighted > to see me for tea. That evening I went home, very excited, and > told my partner, "I'm going to see the Minister for tea." > He replied, "There's a Minister for Tea?"'' > -- (Chris Bryant, MP: > http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?gid=2008-10-23a.149.1) > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >
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