HC Deb 22 February 2000 vol 344 c843W
43. Dr. Tony Wright

To ask the President of the Council if she will make a statement on progress in modernisation of the House of Commons. [109662]

Mrs. Beckett

Forty seven of the 54 recommendations of the Modernisation Committee directed at Government have already been implemented. The House has adopted a range of measures to improve the scrutiny of legislation; Thursday sittings have been brought forward; the scrutiny of European business has been reformed and sittings in Westminster Hall have begun.