Clause 19 - Advice of the Electoral Commission
Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill
12:00 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
Perhaps the Minister could clear one thing up. This is an elaborate procedure to allow the Secretary of State to direct the Electoral Commission to give him advice. Is the Secretary of
State unable to ask for advice from the Electoral Commission in the absence of a statutory provision in primary legislation?