12 Innovation and good practice
61. This Committee, a group of Members of Parliament
supported by a small team of staff, has demonstrated some examples
of good practice and pioneered new ways of working, which we leave
to our successor Committee to take forward. Innovations have included:
· Electronic
circulation of papers, which has proved an effective way of working;
and
· Training
we received on questioning techniques on an awayday, which has
made us determined to make our questioning more effective.
62. We have been very pleased to be one of the first
Select Committees to benefit from two part-time members of staff
discharging the role of Clerk as a jobshare. This arrangement
has worked very well and we encourage the House Service to continue
to develop flexible working arrangements in order to retain and
develop talented staff.
63. Given our wide-ranging remit we have found it
useful to work with and build upon the work of other Select Committees.
For example, our report Leadership for the long term referenced
the work of the Transport Select Committee, Defence Select Committee,
Science and Technology Select Committee, Political and Constitutional
Reform Select Committee, and the work of the Parliamentary Office
of Science and Technology.[78]
In future, this cross-fertilisation may be made easier by the
co-location of Select Committee staff teams with House of Commons
Library staff.
78 Public Administration Select Committee, Third Report
of Session 2014-15, Leadership for the long term: Whitehall's capacity to address future challenges,
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