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MPs prefer Total Place to community budgets

Image from 123rf.com The Commons local government and communities committee has an interesting report on localism out today. After a quick skim through it, the most interesting point to me seemed to be...

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Views about online engagement from Formula One

The opportunities for discussing eDemocracy and Formula One in a single post don't come along that often, but this weekend they happily have. James Allen reports on a recent discussion in which...

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MPs urge online feedback for public services

The Commons public administration committee has just published its keenly anticipated report on government IT. It's well worth a read, and has interesting sections on engaging users in service design...

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Commons committee statement on DirectGov ePetitions

The Commons backbench business committee has just released a statement on the DirectGov ePetitions system. This follows the news that despite reaching the required thresholds, two petitions have not...

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Electoral data-matching pilots 'telling us what we know '

Having written previously about the downside of the government's decision to scrap the Co-ordinated Online Register of Electors (CORE), it is worth mentioning a report published today by the Commons...

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Public Data Corporation damaged 'global credibility' on open data

Ministers have been warned their plans for a Public Data Corporation (PDC) "negatively affected the global credibility" of their open data commitments. The latest minutes of the Cabinet Office's...

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MPs want changes to ePetitions system

The Commons procedure committee has published its interim report on ePetitions. The two main conclusions of the inquiry were largely as predicted in this blog's previous post on the committee's...

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Which areas will lose out in voter registration data-matching?

Last November I highlighted a report from the Commons political and constitutional reform committee which contained some pretty negative views about the use of 'data matching' to improve the electoral...

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Government backs Westminster Hall debates on ePetitions

Since I last wrote about ePetitions, the government has replied to the Commons procedure committee report on ePetitions, giving its endorsement to a pilot period in which the backbench business...

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ePetitions and MPs as 'conduits for the raw sewage of populism'

The Commons backbench business committee (BBC) recently published a report on the lessons it has learned since being set up in June 2010. As the committee which allocates Commons time to debating...

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