Coming up on the Parliamentary Website

Written Parliamentary Question

Mr Amess: To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, what historical material the House of Commons Commission is planning to make available on the parliamentary (a) intranet and (b) website in the next two years; and if he will make a statement.

John Thurso: There is currently a project under way to digitise House of Commons Journals between the years 1836 and 1997. Scanning is in progress. Publishing to the website is yet to be scheduled and resourced.


There are plans to put up new content on the Living Heritage section of the parliamentary website on the themes of Parliament and Belief, Parliament and Empire, and Parliament and Ireland in the financial year 2011-12.

The Parliamentary website is http://www.parliament.uk/

The Parliament Website

A very useful resource for followers of Parliament is its website - http://www.parliament.uk/. It's worth spending a little time exploring the site. There's a lot of material available.




To follow business in the House the most useful pages are

• The calendar http://services.parliament.uk/calendar/
• Daily Business page - Commons http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmagenda.htm
• Daily Business page - Lords http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldordpap.htm
• Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/pahansard.htm
• Parliament Live - live and archive footage of the chambers and committee meetings http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Home.aspx

For Bills before Parliament the best page is http://services.parliament.uk/bills/ - which links to many related resources.

Details of members of both Houses can be found at http://www.parliament.uk/people/index.cfm

Background material on how Parliament works, and its history is accessible at http://www.parliament.uk/about/index.cfm