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Records of the Independent Commission on the Voting System
Catalogue reference: NL
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Contains records of the Independent Commission on the Voting System relating to the consideration of electoral reform.
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NL
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the Independent Commission on the Voting System
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Date (When the record was created)
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1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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Contains records of the Independent Commission on the Voting System relating to the consideration of electoral reform.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Independent Commission on the Voting System, 1997-1998
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1 series
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1999 Home Office
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- Topics
- Electoral reform
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Independent Commission on the Voting System was established by the government in December 1997 with the remit to report within a year. The Commission started its work in January 1998 with the following terms of reference:
-The Commission shall be free to consider and recommend any appropriate system or combination of systems in recommending an alternative to the present system for Parliamentary elections to be put before the people in the government's referendum;-The Commission shall observe the requirement for broad proportionality, the need for stable government, an extension of voter choice and the maintenance of a link between Members of Parliament and geographical constituencies.
Members of the Commission were appointed by the Prime Minister and comprised the following members: The Rt Hon Lord Jenkins of Hillhead OM (Chairman)Lord Alexander of Weedon QCBaroness Gould of PotternewtonSir John Chilcot GCBDavid Lipsery Esq
The Commission was staffed by officials from the Home Office.
There were twenty formal Commission meetings and one final "winding-up" meeting.
The Report was published in October 1998.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C311/
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