How MN users informed House of Commons debates last year

[RowanMumsnet]

Hello

As some of you will know, occasionally we pop up with messages from the House of Commons' engagement team asking for your views on certain topics, so that MPs can read and refer to your thoughts when they hold debates.

The engagement team has put together this summary of some of the debates you contributed to last year, together with some updates on what happened after the debates had ended.

Hope you find it interesting - we're sure there will be more requests for your thoughts throughout 2020!

Thanks
MNHQ

This is brilliant! 👏🏻

Wow thank you for this. It's great.

Thank you @RowanMumsnet, I'm marking this to read properly later.

This is brilliant!

Thanks
Now when I'm reading Mumsnet I can say I'm doing important government work

But that doesn't look anything like me!

@palomapear

This is fab!

That’s brilliant!

That's really great - thank you for sharing

Thanks , MN

@palomapear

This is brilliant!

Thanks
Now when I'm reading Mumsnet I can say I'm doing important government work

Thanks for the lovely responses !

Very good! Mumsnet is so important as a place for political activism - I lurched on here for jogging tips then re-emerged as an extremely effective women's rights campaigner.

Dare we also add the work we did on the Mumsnet originated campaign We Can't Consent to This which led to these speeches in parliament by Harriet Harman, Mark Garnier and Victoria Atkins on the horror of claimed "rough sex" defences twitter.com/Wecantconsentto/status/1179461570184830977?s=09

(And a commitment from party leaders to support law change)

Oh @WomanDaresTo we've been watching and admiring - really important stuff and brilliantly executed, well done

Thank you all for making the space for this - it's brilliant!

Now when I'm reading Mumsnet I can say I'm doing important government work

Brilliant!

Fantastic, will look forward to more opportunities to contribute.

Now when I'm reading Mumsnet I can say I'm doing important government work.

Great to hear this feedback. It's awesome that this happens.

Great to see!

Wow, great document! Thanks to HoC staff for putting it together.

And yet over on the webchats we are being dictated to about what topics we may or may not post questions about.

And when I posted this very reasonable question :

Is dictating what your site users can and cannot ask about a good idea?

Is that in the spirit of mumsnet?

You deleted it @MNHQ

Is that transparent and open? Because it looks like you are pushing your own agendas.

Hmmm I recall there was a recent thread asking for opinions and experiences of child benefit rules, I thought it would have featured in this report too - why is it not there MNHQ?

This is amazing. Thanks to the Commons staff for producing it and to MNHQ for sharing

@turnedabout

Hmmm I recall there was a recent thread asking for opinions and experiences of child benefit rules, I thought it would have featured in this report too - why is it not there MNHQ?

I think there have been six or seven of these consultations over the past year - the Parliament team made the decisions about which ones to include here, but I guess the document would have been quite long if they'd tried to cover them all. If you can find that thread though, there's usually an update at the end from the Parliament team reporting on what happened next.