Procedure Committee Reports

Part of Backbench Business — [32nd( )Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 2:01 pm on 13 October 2011.

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Photo of Julian Huppert Julian Huppert Liberal Democrat, Cambridge 2:01, 13 October 2011

I have the great honour, I believe, of having been the first of all current MPs to join Twitter. It has been useful. [Interruption.] I was not an MP at the time I joined; I do not claim that. I, too, have received a number of comments about this debate. A number of people said that they had become interested in politics as a result of following Twitter and receiving tweets from myself, the hon. Lady and others. There are also people who actively tune into debates because they know what is happening; they can quickly understand what is being debated in this place. The TV and online audience for Parliament goes up because of Twitter. Another point is that deaf people have no better way of following a debate in this Chamber as it happens.