Thank you very much, Chair.
This is my second appearance before the committee. I came here in April 2020, when we had just started the hybrid proceedings in the U.K. House of Commons, so I won't describe all that again. I thought it might be of interest to the committee to know what we've done since then, as I know you are looking at the legacy of the hybrid or COVID-related proceedings.
In the U.K. House of Commons, we finished all remote participation by members in July 2021. We finished remote participation by members in committee meetings at the same time. The House of Lords has continued with remote proceedings by a small number of members on health or disability grounds, but that is a very small number, in the very low double figures.
Select committees have continued, as I say, with in-person sittings since then, but we've noticed a significant increase in the numbers of witnesses appearing remotely at panels like this. That's, I think, a very significant legacy of our COVID-19 period.
In many cases, more than half of the witnesses are now regularly appearing remotely, and that's actually been to the convenience of committees. It's been easier to pull together panels from a different part of the country or over the world at shorter notice. It's also made it easier for witnesses to appear without having to come all the way to London to appear in person. That's probably increased the range of the kinds of people who are giving evidence to committees. That's a bonus.
The only other significant change in our proceedings that's lasted since the pandemic period is in the way we record the names of MPs voting in divisions, which we used to do by—