Clause 49 - Family proceedings courts
Courts Bill [Lords]
4:15 pm
Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath, Conservative)
I am slightly concerned about the Government's increasing reliance on websites—almost to the exclusion of all else. although we want to encourage what is referred to as e-government—earlier, someone referred sotto voce to an e-enabled shadow Solicitor-General, and I am happy to be considered to be e-enabled—the Government must remember that hard copies are still important when they are consulting people in a traditional field such as the law. It will never be adequate for the Government just to put something on the website of the Department for Constitutional Affairs and to assume that everybody will see it.
Not everybody is of the same generation as the youthful Minister who is putting forward the Government's case. I asked my—