What does coronavirus mean for public engagement with parliament? ('Insights', series 1 - episode 3)

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4.9 • 34 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Find out what’s going on with the day to day running of parliament, and the important environment legislation in progress, during the coronavirus lockdown in this interview between Ruth Chambers and Sir David Natzler.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Green Alliance podcast. My name is Sean Spears and I'm Green
0:08.3	Alliance's director and I'm really pleased to welcome you to the latest edition of our podcast.
0:13.2	The Green Alliance team, like many others, are adapting to working from home and we'll be
0:17.4	continuing our crucial work in the coming weeks and months ahead.
0:25.6	How what is an unsettling, uncertain time for us all, we want to use the podcast to keep people informed of the latest news and developments in environmental politics and policy.
0:30.1	I very much hope you enjoy this podcast series.
0:32.7	We won't be able to meet face to face for a while, but that doesn't mean that we can't
0:35.5	stay in touch and explore new ideas, particularly about the time we're all looking forward to life after the coronavirus.
0:42.6	A Green Alliance we'll be doing our best to connect people and foster the conversations we
0:47.8	need to be having including through online events and this podcast series. As ever your
0:53.4	suggestions and feedback will be very welcome.
0:58.3	Hello everybody. So I'm Ruth Chambers from Greenie UK and Green Alliance. And here today,
1:03.8	I've got Sir David Natsler, former clerk and principal constitutional advisor to the House of Commons.
1:10.5	David worked in the House of Commons for 43
1:12.4	years, so is a real authority on how Parliament works in parliamentary process. We all know that the
1:19.4	impact of the coronavirus is affecting us profoundly, our health, our lives, and indeed our livelihoods in many
1:25.6	cases. Things are moving pretty quickly, both in terms
1:28.9	of the outbreak and the government's response, and also how Parliament itself is adapting to
1:34.1	working in this new world in which we find ourselves. And that's what we want to focus on for the
1:39.0	next 20 minutes. What changes have already been made by Parliament? What more might be on the way? How might that affect us as people that want to engage with parliamentarians,
1:49.0	both on the scrutiny of legislation and just talking to our elected representatives?
1:54.0	And also the glut of legislation that's before Parliament at the moment, what might that mean for its passage?
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