Improving educational facilities at Parliament
Summary
This Report ‘Improving Facilities for Educational
Visitors to Parliament’ (HC 434) looks at improving visitor's access to
Parliament, and assesses what the focus of Parliament's visitor services should
be and who should be the main target audience.
The Report sets
out options for varying scales of visitor facilities and what kind of
facilities should be provided, and what proposals for change are required. One
part of the strategy is to improve public engagement with Parliament with an
upgrade of the Parliament website.
A possible upgrade of the new visitor route through the Visitor Reception
Building and Westminster Hall is also discussed, along with further initiatives
to explain the work of the select committees to the media, and outreach
programmes to schools and the wider public.
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Law-Making Explained
This is a House of
Commons Paper (HC 434 2005-06)): it is a Report from the House of Commons
Administration Committee.
Find out more about
Select Committees.
How does it affect me?
If you are interested
in the Parliamentary Education Service and how Parliament involve the wider
public, this may be of interest to you.
The Committee is sceptical of
the value for money of a full-scale visitor centre, and states that existing
strategies, such as improved educational facilities about Parliament and its
working would provide better engagement with the public. School trips to
Parliament would be the best means of communicating the work and history of the
institution. The Committee recommends improved facilities for the Parliamentary
Education Service.
Find out more about the work of the
House of
Commons Administration Committee.
See more on the activities if the
Parliamentary
Education Service.
