Clause 8 - Provision of information to voters
Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill
12:15 pm
Mr Nick Raynsford (Minister of State (Local and Regional Government), Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Greenwich and Woolwich, Labour)
It would, because from the appropriate day, if it is the 43rd day, there are just 27 days to go until the referendum, if the timetable set out in the legislation is pursued. The hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge would put the Government in the impossible position of having to give an undertaking that we would not put out any information until a date after which we are debarred from putting out information. That is a preposterous suggestion.