Campaign channel

Submit written evidence to a select committee

A UK Parliament select committee inquiry takes written evidence from the public, and what it accepts is published on parliament.uk under the submitter's own name. Read that sentence twice before picking this channel: a submission is permanent and cannot be withdrawn, and the committee holds the submitter responsible for what it says.

UK Parliament written evidence5 credits per delivery

What it files

Written evidence to one select committee inquiry, under the supporter's own name.

To whom

The UK Parliament select committee running the call for evidence.

What the campaign supplies

  • The inquiry's submission period id, which the engine refuses to file without.
  • The evidence title.
  • The evidence body. Anything over three thousand words also needs a summary.

What the supporter supplies

  • Their first and last name, which is published with the evidence.
  • Their email address.

Consent

The supporter agrees that their evidence and name are filed with the committee and published permanently on parliament.uk.

Credits per delivery

5 credits. One delivery is one supporter's copy, so a campaign that writes to three recipients on a supporter's behalf draws three deliveries.

How it is delivered

A campaign that sets no privacy option files its evidence as public, under the supporter's own name, which is what the committee publishes. An unrecognised setting is refused outright rather than read as public, because publishing a name nobody offered and discarding somebody's decision to be named are both wrong and neither can be undone. Every supporter's copy is personalised from the campaign's template: the subject is rewritten for each send, and the body's arrangement varies per participant, so a thousand filings are not one document a thousand times.

A campaign that runs it

No public example yet.