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Online legislation debate praised

Adults discuss Bob the Builder on the web... this is modern government...

By Joey Gardiner

Published: 21 June 2002 15:25 BST

Parliamentarians have lauded healthy debate on the first ever online forum for draft legislation, organised for the Communications Bill.

Lord Puttnam, chairman of Parliament's joint committee which is overseeing debate on the bill, welcomed the 200 contributions received, and said the standard of the debate had been very high.

The forum opened on 10 June, running for 10 weeks at http://www.commbill.net . The discussion so far has included calls for measures to ensure the standard of children's programming is maintained, and concern about the creation of a single regulator for all communications.

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