What’s on in June is now available online for those with access to the parliamentary intranet.

Key events next month include:

• The Spending Review (5 June): a Library specialist talk focusing on the background to the 2013 Spending Review and the public spending choices facing the Government.
• Speaker’s School Council Awards (6 June): celebrating and awarding excellence in school councils.
• Is the Westminster system fit for purpose? (6 June): a lecture chaired by The Rt Hon Baroness Hayman GBE PC, former (and first) Lord Speaker; speakers will include Sir Robert Rogers, Clerk of the House of Commons and Chief Executive, and David Beamish, Clerk of the Parliaments.
• Deaf Awareness half day workshop (11 June): find out more about deaf people and the way they communicate.
• 62^nd Westminster Seminar on Parliamentary Practice & Procedure (17-21 June): a detailed course aimed at newly-elected Members and newly-appointed Clerks, designed to enhance the capacity of delegates to work more effectively in their legislatures.
• Drop-in surgeries for Members (18 June): advisory sessions run by the Personnel Advice Service.

For a full list of events happening next month, visit the intranet.

The House of Commons now has its own dedicated Twitter feed, @HouseofCommons, maintained by the Public Information and Outreach team.

The feed has been live since January and already has over 8,000 followers, including Members of both Houses, political journalists, broadcasters and a wide range of interest groups and NGOs.

@HouseofCommons provides politically impartial news and information on the work of the Commons, with a particular focus on increasing the visibility of work in the Chamber and in Westminster Hall debates. It is also used to respond to queries from other Twitter users about aspects of House of Commons procedure and practice.

Future plans for @HouseofCommons include real-time coverage of Commons divisions and other key events in the parliamentary calendar.

We have already mentioned the Commons Library tweets which are at https://twitter.com/commonslibrary.

On 2 and 3 May the Web and Intranet Service hosted the 11^th Parliaments on the Net Conference, organised annually by the European Centre for Parliamentary Research and Documentation (ECPRD).

Since 1996, the ECPRD has promoted a series of seminars called ‘Parliaments on the Net’ with the aim of bringing together digital experts from across Europe to share experience and best practice on how Parliaments can best exploit the opportunities offered by the web.

About Parliaments on the Net XI

This year’s seminar theme was ‘Realising the Digital Parliament’ and focused in particular on the shift taking place in many Parliaments from print to digital.

The event was hosted in the Attlee Suite in Portcullis House and was attended by over 70 delegates from across European Parliaments. The conference included presentations from parliamentary staff as well as delegates from other legislatures and external speakers.

Presentations included contributions from Julius van de Laar, Campaigns Consultant & Digital Media Strategist for the Obama campaigns in 2008 and 2012, Dr Andy Williamson, founder of FutureDigital, and John Sheridan from The National Archives. The event showcased how digital innovations are changing the process of lawmaking and politics around the globe.

The conference was officially opened by the Lord Speaker, Baroness D’Souza, and included contributions from John Pullinger and David Beamish with the closing remarks delivered by Sir Robert Rogers.

Watch the recorded sessions

All the presentations were live streaming and recorded and can be viewed at:

• Parliaments on the Net XI recorded sessions

Read the Parliaments on the Net blog and view photographs of the conference at:

• Parliaments on the Net XI blog