Clause 6 - Combination of polls
Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill
5:00 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
One of the issues that Ministers will have to judge—we have not yet heard a Minister being clear about it—is the level of interest. Let us reduce it to an absurd level and say that the Secretary of State decides to hold a referendum in south-east England on a not very good hair day and only one person votes in favour. I assume that the Secretary of State would not seek to establish a regional assembly on that basis—