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Parliament's record since 1997: debates, questions, statements, votes, bills, committees and members' interests

Where MPs Stand

Sourced briefings on the record of Parliament

Civil Service impartiality and referendums inquiry

Inquiry by the Public Administration Committee, 13 February 2014 to 13 February 2014. Its page on the Parliament website.

Evidence sessions

  • 8 April 2014: Professor Michael Keating, University of Aberdeen, and Professor Jim Gallagher, University of Oxford.
  • 9 April 2014: Sir Nicholas Macpherson, Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury.
  • 6 May 2014: Sir Bob Kerslake, Head of the Civil Service and Permanent Secretary, to the Department for Communities and Local Government, Sir Peter Housden, Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government and Secretary to the Scottish Cabinet, David Maddox, Westminster Correspondent, The Scotsman, Michael Settle, UK Political Editor, The Herald and Professor James Mitchell, Professor of Public Policy and International Relations, University of Edinburgh
  • 13 May 2014: Rt Hon Peter Riddell CBE, Director, and Akash Paun, Fellow, Institute for Government
  • 11 June 2014: Rt Hon Francis Maude MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General
  • 16 June 2014: John Swinney MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth, Scottish Government, Professor Susan Deacon, University of Edinburgh, David Clegg, Daily Record, Simon Johnson, The Telegraph (Scotland), and Scott MacNab, The Scotsman.