Under the system that exists at the moment, the government gives a written response to any e-petition that reaches 10,000 signatures. The system the committee has proposed, with the petitions committee, proposes that the petitions committee might be able to take up any petition, whether a paper petition or an e-petition, that it thinks merits further action.
There are a number of things that it could propose happen, not just a debate. It might think that a petition that has not received a response from the government ought to get one and it can ask the government for one; or it might consider that the petitioners should come in and have the opportunity to give oral evidence to the committee, for example. So there is a range of possible actions that the petitions committee could take.