Votes And Proceedings - House Of Commons: Procès-verbaux - Chambre Des Communes

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Organisations must obtain print-ready PDFs from their printer, unless the PDF was created in-house. This should be the file used by the printer to produce the copies that your organisation, or parent department, will lay before Parliament. The Votes and Proceedings listed below in calendar view link to Parlinfo where HTML and PDF versions of the documents are available. 2023 Parliamentary papers PDFs published on GOV.UK need to include specific information about the paper. Including the correct information, as advised in the official documents section of the GOV.UK Publisher Manual, will ensure that your document can be found by the GOV.UK search functionality for official documents, and harvested by the legal deposit libraries for statutory legal deposit. Consolidated version Votes and Proceedings for the First Session of the 47th Parliament ( PDF 4.39 MB) — last updated 24 November 2023. The publication of the print-ready PDFs will allow anyone wishing to produce and sell professionally printed copies to do so.Once laid, parliamentary papers must be published on GOV.UK. Publication may be coordinated so that it coincides with a major announcement or policy launch. information about the paper is correctly added to the fields in the GOV.UK publishing system in line with GDS requirements There are a number of organisations that do not need to publish their House of Commons or unnumbered Act Papers on GOV.UK. For a fee, the current core supplier for parliamentary papers, and other suppliers, can provide services to create an accessible PDF. web-optimised PDFs should meet GDS guidelines on creating accessible PDFs. More information can be found in the Government Service Design Manual