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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session on the electoral and boundary reform experience in Scotland
It's the same figure.
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session on the electoral and boundary reform experience in Scotland
For every region.
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session on the electoral and boundary reform experience in Scotland
They used to be, yes. But also, could I just clarify, just from what you said there, do you have variable district magnitude with your constituencies for regional members, or is it a fixed number of members per region for every region?
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session on the electoral and boundary reform experience in Scotland
If I'm right, the Scottish Parliament boundaries are not coterminous with the Westminster boundaries, are they?
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session on the electoral and boundary reform experience in Scotland
Can I welcome Members back, and the public, to this afternoon's sessions for the committee, as we review the Senedd reform Bill? The third session this afternoon is now with witnesses from Boundaries Scotland and the Electoral Management Board for Scotland…
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
I now propose that we suspend for a lunch break and we will resume at 12:45 for the next session.
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Okay, thank you. It's always on the last question that I come in somewhere. Could I thank you both for attending and for your evidence today? As you know, you will receive a copy of the transcript. If there are factual inaccuracies in that transcript, please…
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Okay. And I've got one final question for Alberto, because I think Darren's highlighted today, very much so, that the threshold under the current closed list system is quite high, and you said, Make Votes Matter, that there's going to be elements or…
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Alberto.
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Have any other Members got questions? We're finishing early, then. But is there anything you think in this Bill that is missing and a lost opportunity, because, as you say, there's—? We haven't talked, really, about residency, which is an issue that, clearly…
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Can I ask on the job-sharing agenda, if you're doing some further work, because you highlighted you talked to candidates and Members who were elected in 2017, but you didn't mention voters? I just wondered whether you'll be looking at voters, because there…
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Heledd.
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Yes.
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Because it links into the vacancy scenario then, as well, because if recall is successful, then there's a vacancy. And, Jess, just out of curiosity, as we talked about the last Senedd, well, we know the amount of Members who changed party—one party started…
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Okay. Darren.
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
I will bring Darren in in a minute. In that sense, shorter terms are more suitable for voters to actually change their representation as a consequence of that type of event happening, if we haven't got anything in place to address it.
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Heledd. Yes.
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
I'll give you an example, Darren, and this is off the top of my head. This Bill is actually changing the electoral system, whereas I understand that the gender quotas Bill might be looking at how parties themselves structure their candidate lists, which is…
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
We're well prepared, Darren.
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Jess.
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Darren.
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Okay. Sarah.
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
But that would have required a more flexible magnitude within those constituencies, then.
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Darren, do you want to come in on this?
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Heledd.
