Parliamentary Constituencies Bill: evidence session

Dr Alan Renwick, the Unit's Deputy Director, and Professor Robert Hazell, its founding Director gave expert evidence to the House of Commons public bill committee that is examining the Parliamentary Constituencies Bill on 23 June 2020.

To ensure that the Boundary Commissions remain independent and impartial, Dr Renwick and Professor Hazell recommended that the bill be amended in order to provide new safeguards. They emphasised four key points:

1. the Commissioners should be appointed for a single, non-renewable eight-year term
2. they should be subject to requirements of political neutrality
3. the deputy chair of each Commission (a High Court judge) should sit on the appointments panel for other Commissioners
4. the appointing minister should be required to appoint only from the names recommended by the panel.

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