I serve on the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. The Committee examines Statutory Instruments and reports on those that merit the attention of the House. We rarely take oral evidence, but we have decided to do so in respect of the Government’s recent guidance on public consultations, which entails Departments being able to hold a consultation…
I promised to alert readers when the Government eventually got round to consulting on the future of the edited version of the electoral register. As you may recall, I got a response from a minister earlier this year saying it was intended to commence the consultation before the summer recess. The commitment then changed to holding it…
We have just concluded the short debate I initiated on public consultations by Government Departments. It was a useful debate. The text can be read in Hansard tomorrow. My contribution to the debate was informed by earlier responses to my posts on consultation. In his contribution to the debate, Lord Maclennan called attention to this blog and,…
Following my earlier posts, and readers’ responses, on public consultations by Government, I put down a number of Parliamentary Questions. I have also now secured a slot for a Question for Short Debate (QSD): “to ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to ensure that public consultations by Government Departments follow best practice”. Admittedly,…
In an earlier post, on 27 August, I drew attention to the result of a survey of showing that 98 per cent of electoral registration officers favoured getting rid of the practice of selling the electoral register to commercial bodies. Citizens have by law to supply data about themselves for electoral purposes. I have always…
