Strategic Choices
Document Actions
4.5. Votes & Proceedings
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The Votes and Proceedings is the authoritative record of the proceedings of Parliament. It is not a verbatim record of everything spoken (see Debate Records for that), but is a summary description of all the decisions taken. The Votes and Proceedings are used as a source of reference by a variety of people, including constituents, private companies and members of Parliament.
The module offers the following features:
- the system provides a word-processing interface (OpenOffice) through which a user loads the Votes and Proceedings template that imports the relevant data from the Parliamentary Business of the relative sitting; [OpenOffice] [Plone]
- avoid re-entering data that have already been entered elsewhere in the system. For example, pull in text of Motions; names of MPs, data from Parliamentary Registries (ID of Motions, Questions, Bills, etc.). Importing of such data would function in a similar manner to that of the Debate Report; [OpenOffice] [Plone]
- allow the Clerk to edit imported items, add items and specific formulas that might be required to finalize the document. [OpenOffice]