Found this on The Register:
Parliament’s official recorder is planning to leave the paper age by processing ministers’ written answers electronically.
In April Hansard will launch a Parliamentary Questions Project to process responses to written questions electronically, a spokesperson said.
The project is part of the three-year parliamentary Procedural Data Programme, which has a budget of £7.2m and is charged with delivering scheduled improvements by the end of March 2012.
No deadline has been set for full implementation following the Parliamentary Questions Project pilot, however. If successful, it will replace the existing system whereby government departments deliver ministerial replies to written questions on paper and by hand. Hansard staff would then scan the documents into a reporting system.
