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Select Committee statement on Thursday, 20 April 2017, in the House of Commons, led by Bernard Jenkin.


EU Referendum: Lessons Learned

Statement on the publication of the Twelfth Report from the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Lessons learned from the EU Referendum (HC 496).


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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
624 cc814-820 
Session
2016-17
Department
Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
John Bercow | 624 c819 (Link to this contribution)

We now come to the first Select Committee statement. In a moment I shall call the Chair of the Pu...

Bernard Jenkin | 624 cc819-7 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the Backbench Business Committee for giving me time to present PACAC’s 12th repo...

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Jon Trickett | 624 c818 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for the fairness you have always shown me in this and previous Parliaments...

Bernard Jenkin | 624 c818 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s question. I will not tangle with all the things that he ra...

Greg Knight | 624 c818 (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate my hon. Friend and his Committee on a comprehensive report. I agree with the remar...

Bernard Jenkin | 624 c818 (Link to this contribution)

I do. We made a specific recommendation that a new body be established to monitor cyber-activity ...

Ronnie Cowan | 624 cc818-9 (Link to this contribution)

I am a member of the Committee, so there is plenty I could say about the report, but I will respe...

Bernard Jenkin | 624 c819 (Link to this contribution)

It is a fact—I make no comment on it, as an impartial Chairman of my Committee—that referendums a...

Patrick Grady | 624 c819 (Link to this contribution)

Was there any discussion in the Committee about the franchise for the referendum? If 16 and 17-ye...

Bernard Jenkin | 624 c819 (Link to this contribution)

I ask the hon. Gentleman: why stop at 16? Why not 14 or 12? These are subjective judgments made b...

Paul Flynn | 624 cc819-820 (Link to this contribution)

Does not the hon. Gentleman agree that our system for referendums and elections is more vulnerabl...

Bernard Jenkin | 624 c820 (Link to this contribution)

With respect, I have asked that question, and I feel I have been rather brushed off by Ministers,...

Greg Mulholland | 624 c820 (Link to this contribution)

I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman and to the work of the Committee. I was proud to be a member ...

Bernard Jenkin | 624 c820 (Link to this contribution)

I think there is always an advantage in what one might call a post-legislative referendum, or a r...

Subjects
Codes of practice Applications Administration Civil service ICT Referendums Security Regulation UK membership of EU
Legislation
Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000
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