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HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Further to that point of order, Sir David. The Bill we should be talking about is the Parliamentary Constituencies Bill. The incorrect one is the Parliamentary Constituencies…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you both for joining us. I salute you for your combined seven or eight decades of work on these matters. It strikes me that you are extremely well placed to help us have a…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you very much for joining us, Dr Larner. We really appreciate it. It is great that we have had the chance to hear from you and from your colleague, Professor Wyn Jones,…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you. I seek to get on the record your thoughts on the vanilla scenario, if you like, of those moments in the future when Northern Ireland Assembly elections might be…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Gavin, I want to round out our session with one quite small piece of detail, but one that we have not managed to touch on with any other witness yet. That is the way in which…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Thank you very much indeed. I was keen for the Committee to note that, so I appreciate your help on that.23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you, Gavin. Will you go into the next level of detail, to do with how the rules given to the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland helped to bring about their review?…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Welcome to our Committee, Gavin. I am not sure that I could reach your shoulder to tap you on it, so it is great to have you with us virtually, at least to get me out of that.…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you; that is a helpful suggestion. I know that the four Boundary Commissions are listening very carefully to these witness sessions and so may well have a moment to give…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you very much indeed, Mr Hughes. That is a very helpful depth of detail that we had not managed to get from any other witness in their international comparisons. Could I…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Andrew, thank you for joining for joining us. One element of the Bill in front of us seeks to help parliamentary constituency boundaries and local government boundaries to come…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Welcome, Mr Hughes. It is great to have you here this afternoon. I am indeed going to take you up on the opportunity of talking a little bit about New Zealand with you. Would…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Of course. I am still driving at schedule 2 to the 1986 Act, which admittedly you do not have there in your papers. Professor McLean: I have the Bill here; the amendments to…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Q Thank you very much indeed. Sir John, thank you very much for joining us. I wonder whether you might be able to help us with our understanding of the data used for boundary…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Q Indeed; there is always discussion to be had about how we can continue to improve the completeness and accuracy of the registers. Not that I would get into an argument with you…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you very much, Peter. To introduce a term that we will come on to in Committee, we often talk about the Gould principle, meaning six months of preparation time for…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Q Understood. Thank you for those opening remarks; that is helpful. Maybe Iain has had a chance to think about the other question I left hanging with him. Professor McLean: Thank…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you very much. I am sure that when we think in terms of robust data, we all know the definitions of completeness and accuracy, which are the two terms that we use in this…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you very much. You said that the Government would have the ability to influence the instructions given to the Boundary Commissions. Could you point to where that is in the…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Q There is a final question in my set of questions. Indeed, we all believe in parliamentary sovereignty, but is it not Parliament that sets those rules rather than the Government?…18 Jun 2020