There have been several changes to the system already. There have been some relatively minor ones in terms of the wording of the website. There have been some procedural ones. At the start of the process, the government did not respond to e-petitions and about 18 months into the process we decided that having a new threshold, the 10,000 threshold, would elicit a government policy response to that petition. That's something that was introduced during this Parliament to change the interaction and help improve the engagement.
In terms of the parliamentary handling, the House has approved a specific time, outside of what was otherwise allocated, to allow for the debate, specifically, on e-petitions. That was new time that was found to debate e-petitions.
There have been several changes, some minor technical, some procedural, in terms of how we engage with petitioners, and some from the Parliament end in terms of the time allocated.
The current process, following the debate in May where we worked with the House of Commons Procedure Committee, has thrown up some new challenges, particularly relating to some of the points that have been made with regard to how you engage petitioners, what the member involvement is, and how you might use the technology to show which petitions are particularly popular in a certain area by postal code. Probably the biggest one that the House is considering would be the establishment of a petitions committee that would allow better member input into the outcomes that are available following the engagement.
It's certainly been an evolutionary process since 2011, with some changes already made and some in the pipeline.