Public Administration Select Committee
Select Committee Announcement
For Immediate Release: 20 November 2012
PUT YOUR QUESTIONS TO CABINET MINISTER FRANCES MAUDE: PASC LAUNCHES #askMaude TWITTER HASHTAG FOR YOU TO SUBMIT YOUR OWN QUESTIONS
Next week, on Wednesday 28 November 2012, PASC will taking evidence from the Minister for the Cabinet Office, the Rt Hon Frances Maude MP, as part of its inquiry into how the government engages people in policy making. The Committee is today launching a Twitter hashtag - #askMaude - where you can submit the questions that you think the Committee should ask the Minister about how people can get involved in policy-making .
Among the questions the Committee wants to answer with this inquiry:
· How do the models of policy-making currently used in Government encourage or discourage members of the public from getting involved?
· What advantages and disadvantages are there to greater public engagement in policy-making?
· What are the best ways to get people engage with policymaking?
· How should the Government measure the success or failure of public engagement?
· Will “contestable” (out-sourced) models of policy-making provide greater
opportunities for public engagement in the process?
During Parliament Week this week the Committee is asking people to submit their thoughts and questions via the #askMaude hashtag – some of the questions will then be put to the Minister when he appears before the Committee next week. Submit your questions by the weekend to have a chance to have them asked live in the evidence session, which will be webcast on the Parliament site at: www.parliamentlive.tv
Submissions have already begun on the #askMaude hashtag, and discussion of some of these issues is ongoing on #openpolicy
Need some more inspiration? Full details of the issues and questions the Committee will be considering in the inquiry can be found here: https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/public-administration/120911%20Policy-making%20I%20and%20Q.pdf
Full details of the inquiry can be found here:
Notes:
Media Information: Jessica Bridges Palmer bridgespalmerj@parliament.uk 020 7219 0724
Committee Membership is as follows:
Mr Bernard Jenkin (Chair, Conservative, Harwich and North Essex), Alun Cairns (Conservative, Vale of Glamorgan) Michael Dugher (Labour, Barnsley East), Charlie Elphicke (Conservative, Dover), Paul Flynn (Labour, Newport West), Robert Halfon (Conservative, Harlow), David Heyes (Labour, Ashton-under-Lyne), Kelvin Hopkins (Labour, Luton North), Greg Mulholland (Liberal Democrat, Leeds North West), Priti Patel (Conservative, Witham) and Lindsay Roy (Labour, Glenrothes).
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Media Information: Jessica Bridges Palmer bridgespalmerj@parliament.uk 020 7219 0724
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Dear Maude and co
An ample opportunity for the public to engage in serious policymaking is provided every four years... So please, political parties - just do what's in your manifesto and stop bugging us to "engage" every five minutes! We've got lives to lead and jobs to do (well... we used to have), so please... get on with yours, eh?
If manifestos were worth the paper they're printed on, people might actually go back to giving a hoot about General Elections. I'd really like to see that day in my lifetime :(
Posted by: D.G. | November 22, 2012 at 11:22 AM