Part of Electoral Commission Committee – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 23 July 2007.
David Heath
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
2:30,
23 July 2007
Many of us believe that the case for a fixed-term Parliament, rather than reliance on the whim of a Prime Minister, is unanswerable, but I doubt very much whether it is a matter for the Electoral Commission rather than the political system. There is, however, a desperate need for the Electoral Commission to be strengthened so that it can perform a much stronger regulatory and monitoring role. Is that transition to a stronger role now well in hand?