The post holder is responsible for the debates section of Hansard and for the report of sittings in Westminster Hall. She is also the Financial Resources Manager, with responsibility for all aspects of departmental expenditure, from the three-year PES planning exercise to monitoring monthly management accounts to ensure that the department is spending within its budgets and getting value for money for the House of Commons.

The debates section reports proceedings in the Chamber of the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall It processes written questions and answers for the Department’s written answers unit.

The Managing Editors manage the House reporters, the Westminster Hall reporters, the annunciators, the word processing assistants and the written answers unit.

Our team of annunciator staff performs an operation that is crucial to the smooth running of Parliament, Whitehall and the Government machine. Without the information they put out on screens throughout the Palace of Westminster and beyond, Members and Ministers could never be sure of when their attendance in the Chamber or Westminster Hall was required, or of what was being debated at any given moment.