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Business of the House

I welcome the hon. Lady's commitment for the House to get more engaged in the legislative programme. It is our intention to publish more Bills in draft. We will be publishing more in this Session and even more in the Session that follows. The hon. Lady was a member of the Wright Committee, one of whose recommendations was that there should be more engagement between the public and the House on the legislative programme. The Deputy Prime Minister's written ministerial statement was a further step down that road towards a public reading stage. We have invited those with comments on the Protection of Freedoms Bill to log those comments on the Government website, and those will then be moderated and made available to the Public Bill Committee. I hope that that will enrich and inform those who participate in Committee. I want to engage with the hon. Lady, the Procedure Committee and the Liaison Committee before we move to the fulfilment of what is in the coalition agreement—a commitment to a proper public reading stage. I hope that at that stage the House will take ownership of the process, rather than its being led exclusively by the Government.