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Legislative Process

Yes, as my hon. Friend says, there is a lot of interest in Parliament among young people; theirs is not a totally disengaged generation, although that is sometimes the perception. We must find a way of ensuring that the important citizenship curriculum in schools is taught properly and well. But we must at the same time ensure that we modernise Parliament so that young people, whose interest in it we have encouraged through that citizens’ agenda, feel that they can have some input into this place. I am pleased that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House has introduced the modernisation proposals, and I look forward to there being many more of them, particularly to those that might arise out of our current inquiry into the role of the Back Bencher, which I know that he welcomes.