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HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you very much for joining us today, Dave; it is great to have you. Thanks to you and many others on the Parliamentary Parties Panel who have also taken part in technical…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Thank you very much. I am happy to leave that line of questioning there and allow other colleagues to come in.18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you for joining us, Scott. It is a great pleasure to have you with us. Thank you for some of the prior work that your party did as part of technical engagement. Given that…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Q Would you be able to give us a little more colour around perhaps the reasons why constituencies might be protected? Scott Martin: Clearly the two protected constituencies are…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Q Finally, aside from those reasons, would you take a view on whether there should be equal treatment across the nations of the United Kingdom? Scott Martin: I think there is a…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (First sitting)Q Thank you, Mr Paisley. I also thank you, Isabel and Tony, for joining us this morning. In my departmental role, I look forward to continuing the work between my officials and…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (First sitting)I beg to move, That— (1) the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 11.30am on Thursday 18 June) meet— (a) at 2.00pm on Thursday 18 June; (b) at 9.25am and 2.00pm on…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Thank you, Scott. I am looking forward to talking much more about that with David Linden, as the Committee goes on.18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, Geraint, for joining us today—it is great to have you here. Thank you for your participation and that of your party. Can we talk a little about how political parties,…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you very much. Just to be absolutely clear, the reason you start at the corner of Ynys Môn, as it were, rather than in south Wales, is that it is an island—or is it that…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Thank you very much.18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Thank you very much indeed, Richard, for joining us this afternoon. It is really valuable to have your insights. Professor Wyn Jones: It’s a pleasure.18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Q I have been trying in my questions to touch on all the Bill’s major issues; I wonder if I might return to the need to get the job done and the need for updated constituencies. I…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you very much for putting that on the record. Can you give us your view of the provisions in the Bill? Professor Wyn Jones: These kinds of things are always a difficult…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Q Just dwelling on that last point, are you saying that essentially the process should be free of political inference and it would be wrong for MPs to mark their own homework?…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you for that insight. Turning to the independence of the commissions, they are judge-led and there is an extremely high standard required for those appointments. I am sure…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Q Yes, indeed. I suspect between our words we have made the point I was going to invite you to make, so thank you for that. For completeness, were you also in favour of there…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)I salute the crystal clarity of your thinking and the way you have put it to us. Thank you.18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you for coming to join us today, Tom; it is much appreciated. I also thank all the political parties who we have before us today for some of their technical engagement…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)I have a final question to round off that set. Obviously, we all want to see as many people who are eligible to be registered as possible—and that, I trust, would be the view of…18 Jun 2020