Hansard online quicker
February 14th, 2012 at 1:00 pm by David FarrarParliament has announced:
- A draft version of speeches made by members of Parliament, called the Draft Transcript, is now published to the Parliament website within 2½ hours of members’ speeches being delivered in the House.
- The final version (subject to minor correction), called the Daily Debates, is now published to the Parliament website debate by debate—you no longer have to wait for the whole of the day’s proceedings to be ready for publishing. When the Daily Debate is published, the Draft Transcript is removed.
This is a great step forward. To be able to see a transcript of speeches within 150 minutes will be very helpful for scrutinizing what MPs say. Combined with the In The House service which gets videos onto You Tube within an hour or so, and we have excellent transparency.
The next step is select committees – eventually I’d like them to be reported to the same detail as the House is. But a first step would be to broadcast the public sessions of select committees and make them available by webcast and on digital TV.
Tags: Hansard, Parliament
February 14th, 2012 at 6:16 pm
oooh, I can’t wait! My breath is bated. May we expect Kiwiblog to shrivel as commenters, instead, drool over their fav MPs flights of fantasy?
Btw, I’ve picked up just one small error in your post DPF, misspelling daft.
Vote:February 15th, 2012 at 8:00 am
I still don’t see why there would be a 2.5 hour wait for a draft. If it’s draft then surely we could just have one or more fast touch typists hammering up the debate as it happens. This would also resolve the Mojo Mathers issue as she could sit next to that typist and get a live feed (rather than one version for her and then one version for the rest of the country which seems like a slow way to do things). It also means that all coverage of the house (even live) could be subbed.
Vote:February 15th, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Richard29
Vote:Why not make it live on the web for us all!