division_name: Record Copies of Acts
motion: <p pid="a1001.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House disagrees with the conclusion of the House of Commons Administration Committee&#8217;s First Report of Session 2015-16; welcomes the view expressed by the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General that government funds would be available to pay for the continued use of vellum for printing Acts of Parliament; is unwilling to amend or resile from the terms of the Resolutions agreed by both Houses on 12 February 1849; and accordingly instructs the Clerk of the House to convey to the Clerk of the Parliaments that the House of Commons has withheld its consent to the use of archival paper rather than vellum for the printing of record copies of public Acts of Parliament.</p>
  
  <p pid="a1005.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Vellum surely is the strongest, most durable writing material. Maybe there is some newly invented material lined with graphene, but if the choice is between even the best paper and vellum, vellum will win.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p pid="a1010.4/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Recording our laws on vellum is a millennium long tradition, and surprisingly cost effective. While the world around us constantly changes, we should safeguard some of our great traditions and not let the use of vellum die out.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p pid="a1012.5/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;cannot be reliably predicted by means of the present artificial ageing tests.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p pid="a1012.5/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Vellum requires a specialist and time-consuming printing process, and uses equipment which is not used for any other purpose. It is firmly expected to be significantly cheaper to print on quality archival paper.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p pid="a1012.5/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are to-day, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we shall shortly be gone as ghost at cock crow.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p pid="a1014.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Gwyr a aeth i Gatreath</p>
  
  <p pid="a1014.4/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Godidog oedd eu gwedd&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p pid="a1016.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Tradition is the illusion of permanence.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p pid="a1023.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Printing vellum copies of laws&#8230;provides a durability we cannot guarantee in the digital world, as we simply cannot know how easy it will be to read today&#8217;s data in a decade, let alone in a millennium.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p pid="a1023.3/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;building new digital services so good people prefer using them to the old paper versions they replace&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p pid="a1026.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;stands well enough, though part Gothic, part Grecian, and part Chinese, until an attempt is made to square it into uniformity. Then it may come down upon our heads altogether in much uniformity of ruin&#8221;.</p>