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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 4 April 2025
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Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Electoral Commission

Meeting date: 9 November 2023

Stephen Kerr

Why do you think that is? What is your analysis? I suppose that we could draw a parallel with the census return, which was virtually catastrophic in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Electoral Commission

Meeting date: 9 November 2023

Stephen Kerr

Can you comment on the accuracy issue? Again, and for information purposes and context, when an individual who is on the register no longer lives at the address, accuracy is at 9.7 per cent in Scotland. That figure is pretty much the same across the United Kingdom, is it not?

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Electoral Commission

Meeting date: 9 November 2023

Stephen Kerr

If those numbers are correct.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Electoral Commission

Meeting date: 9 November 2023

Stephen Kerr

Do you have that metric on the take up? If you do not, you could let us know in writing.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Electoral Commission

Meeting date: 9 November 2023

Stephen Kerr

Is that in addition to Short money?

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Electoral Commission

Meeting date: 9 November 2023

Stephen Kerr

I just think that it is important that people understand how their vote will be used to calculate how the Parliament is made up, frankly. I take your point that it is on your website, but I wonder whether we need to do a bit more to help the Scottish voting public know what it all means.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Electoral Commission

Meeting date: 9 November 2023

Stephen Kerr

Sorry, convener, but if 20 per cent of the potential electorate is missing off the registers, what does that mean for the Boundary Commission for Scotland’s work on equalising constituencies? It will use the same data set. So, straight away, there are in-built errors that, I presume, will impact both urban and rural areas.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Electoral Commission

Meeting date: 9 November 2023

Stephen Kerr

Yes, that is right.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Electoral Commission

Meeting date: 9 November 2023

Stephen Kerr

Do you have any specific geographic insight into the Scottish national position?

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Electoral Commission

Meeting date: 9 November 2023

Stephen Kerr

Yes—