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EU Referendum Bill part 1: Purdah and impartiality inquiry

Inquiry by the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, 7 July 2015 to 25 October 2017. Its page on the Parliament website.

Evidence sessions

  • 14 July 2015: Rt Hon Lord Owen; Rt Hon Jack Straw (at 10.00am); Rt Hon Peter Riddell, Director, Institute for Government, and Professor Robert Hazell, Constitution Unit, University College London (at 10.30am).
  • 16 July 2015: Lord Bew, Chair, Committee on Standards in Public Life; Bob Posner, Director of Party and Election Finance, and Tom Hawthorn, Head of Policy, Electoral Commission (at 10.15am).
  • 21 July 2015: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service; Rt Hon David Lidington MP, Minister for Europe, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and John Penrose MP, Minister for Constitutional Reform, Cabinet Office (at 10.15am).