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Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 28 March 2024
Stephen Kerr
No, the rolling reviews. You suggested—
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 28 March 2024
Stephen Kerr
So were the proposals that you took to the Deputy First Minister rejected because ministers wanted further clarity on the approval process, or were they rejected for other reasons?
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 28 March 2024
Stephen Kerr
That makes perfect sense to me.
Will you detail where the 15-year cycles for all the boundary reviews fall? We have just had a Westminster boundary review, and I think that you said that there will be another Westminster one in 2028.
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 28 March 2024
Stephen Kerr
Two years.
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 28 March 2024
Stephen Kerr
That is the proposal. Right.
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 28 March 2024
Stephen Kerr
That is because of the proposal to have 600 MPs.
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 28 March 2024
Stephen Kerr
It was three electoral cycles—
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 28 March 2024
Stephen Kerr
—and it will stay three. My questions might not have been very clear, but that is very clear now.
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 28 March 2024
Stephen Kerr
Will you describe that? I am certainly interested in that, because I cannot get my head round it.
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 28 March 2024
Stephen Kerr
Yes. When would the work begin on the 15-year review of Westminster? You said that that would be 2028.