ABSTRACT

This chapter is based on two separate Conference panel sessions. The first addressed the question of ‘Promoting efficient and independent administrations in Parliament’, and was introduced by Mr Willem Hendrik de Beaufort, the Clerk of the Second Chamber of the States General, The Netherlands. The second addressed the question of the applications of information technology within Parliaments, and was opened by Helen Irwin, Principal Clerk to the Select Committees, House of Commons, UK.