The Defence Committee is holding an inquiry into the education of children of Service personnel. The inquiry focuses on the provision of education in Service schools overseas and the performance of the Ministry of Defence's Agency, Service Children's Education, but it will also consider the issues facing children and young people when they return to education in the UK and the schooling, and assistance with schooling, which MoD provides in the UK.

The purpose of this online forum is to obtain the views of people with direct experience of Service children's education - families, teachers, education managers, and, most importantly, young people themselves. MPs on the Committee will respond to the comments with the aim of producing a lively debate.

We hope that this will help us identify the most important issues and get ideas for solutions to any problems. We hope that you will tell us about the positive things, as well as about any problems.

When the forum is closed, a summary report and transcripts of the comments will be presented to the Committee and this, together with the written and oral evidence received, will help shape the report we make to Parliament. The Government will have to respond to the recommendations we make.

The forum is now closed for registration but if you want to view the discussion, please click below:

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One of the great successes of this kind of online consultation is that it has the ability to get at hard to reach groups. Our evaluation work of the people who took part in this consultation has highlighted one telling statistic that 78% of participants had never contacted their MP before.

We are delighted at the outcomes of this Diabetes Dialogue initiative; as it has successfully brought together people from all across the country, in one secure deliberative online space. Comments posted on the website by participants were highly constructive and one of the most pleasing developments was the sharing of experiences amongst the participants.

Report

To download the report in full please click here: Diabetes Report

Alternatively, for a hard copy please send your postal address to: edemocracy@hansard.lse.ac.uk

PLEASE NOTE - The comments/views expressed in this online consultation are the views of the individual consultation participants and should not be interpreted as the views either of the Hansard Society or the All-Party Group for Diabetes. For further infomation on diabetes please visit resource page.

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The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee is currently undertaking an inquiry into hate crime in Northern Ireland. The Committee commissioned an online forum under the auspices of the Hansard Society to accompany its formal evidence-taking.

The online forum will help the Committee to gather evidence beyond official statistics, and to widen the pool of people involved in the consultation process. The comments made in this online forum will feed directly into the Committee's inquiry.

In order to gather a wider range of views on the Bill, the Committee commissioned an online forum under the auspices of the Hansard Society to accompany its formal evidence-taking. The comments made in this online forum will feed directly into the Committee's scrutiny of the Bill.

For more information on the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee including a comprehensive overview of their current inquiries, list of committee members and contact details please click here.

Please check back soon for the summary of this consultation.

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The online consultation commissioned by the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitutional Reform Bill is now closed.

Thank you to all those who participated in the online discussion. The Hansard Society's summary report, based on all the forum messages, will be submitted to the Committee and made available on this site shortly.

Reports and Summaries

For the Hansard Society summary report of the online consultation please click here.

For the full Committee Report please click here.

The online consultation commissioned by the Select Committee on the Modernisation of the House of Commons is now closed.

Thank you to all those who participated in the online discussion. The Hansard Society's summary report, based on all the forum messages, is now submitted to the Committee.

For more information on the Modernisation Committee including a comprehensive overview of their current inquiries, list of committee members and contact details please click here.

Reports and Summaries

Contributions to the online consultation can still be viewed on the site, along with the Summary Report.

For the full Committee Report please click here

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The Science and Technology Committee's online consultation has now closed. Thank you to all those who participated in the online discussion.

The Hansard Society has published a summary report based on all the forum messages posted. This has helped the Committee draw up terms of reference for its inquiry into Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law.

The Committee announced on 30 March the terms of reference for its inquiry. It welcomes submissions from individuals and organisation, including those who contributed to the online consultation. The programme of oral evidence will begin in June 2004. For more details please visit: www.parliament.uk

For more information on the Science and Technology Committee including a comprehensive overview of their current inquiries, list of committee members and contact details please click here.

Contributions to the online consultation can still be found on this site, along with the Hansard Society's summary report.

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