ABSTRACT
This paper describes the results of a project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, which explored the ways in which communication between government and the public was evolving in light of the potential of new information and communication technologies (ICTs), in particular as a result of the provision of public information via the websites created to support the United Kingdom Parliament in Westminster and the new devolved legislatures-the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Assembly. The project was designed to gather data both about the services hosting such sites, their strategies and approaches, and about the response of the general public to the sites, their levels of interest in and capacity to use such resources.
