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Constitutional Futures Revisited Launch Conference
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Constitutional Futures Revisited was launched at a Conference on 20 November at Lancaster House, sponsored by the Institute for Government.
The conference was divided into four panels, to discuss the four parts of the book. The experts on each panel responded to its main findings. We have recorded the panel sessions which you can listen to as a streamed audio file. |
Conference Gallery: images from the event
Conference programme
9.15 Registration and Coffee
9.40 Welcome | download audio file (7k)
Sir Michael Bichard, Institute for Government and Prof Robert Hazell, Constitution Unit
9.45 Devolution and the Decentralised State | download audio file (44k)
John Mason MP, SNP, on chapters 2, 3 (Scotland, Wales and finance) and 6 (Britishness), from 3:00 mins
Prof Richard Wyn Jones, Aberystwyth, on 2, 3 (Scotland, Wales and finance) and 6 (Britishness), from 14:40 mins
Joe Pilling, ex Perm Sec, NIO, on chapter 4 (Northern Ireland), from 25:10 mins
Nick Herbert MP, shadow Secretary of State for Justice, on chapter 5 (English Question) and chaps 2, 3 & 6 (from 35:43 mins)
Chair, Peter Riddell, The Times and Institute for Government
11.00 Break
11.30 Institutions of the Central State | download audio file (42k)
Prof Robert Blackburn, KCL, on chapter 9 (Monarchy), from 3:44 mins
Prof Vernon Bogdanor, Oxford, on chapter 10 (judiciary), from 19:11 mins
Sir Michael Bichard, Institute for Government, on chapter 11 (Whitehall), from 29:47 mins
Patricia Hewitt MP, former Cabinet Minister, on chapter 11 (Whitehall), from 42: 21 mins
Chair, Lord Butler of Brockwell, former Cabinet Secretary
12.45 Lunch
13.45 Accountability | download audio file (51k)
Prof Francesca Klug, LSE, on chapter 10 (human rights), from 3:13 mins
Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner, on chapter 11 (Freedom of Information), from 16:35 mins
John Lloyd, Financial Times and Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, on chapter 12 (media), from 26:54 mins
Prof Tom Ling, RAND Europe, on chapter 13 (watchdogs), from 41:05 mins
Chair, Alice Brown, Scottish Public Services Ombudsman
15.00 Break
15.30 Representation | download audio file (44k)
Peter Kellner, YouGov, on chapter 14 (electoral systems), from 1:00 mins
Prof Lord (Philip) Norton, Hull, on chapters 14 (electoral systems), 15 (parties), and 16 (parliament), from 11:55 mins
Tony Wright MP, on chapters 14, 15 & 16, from 22:51 mins
Lord McNally, leader in the Lords, Liberal Democrats, on chapters 14, 15 & 16, from 35:07 mins
Chair, The Lord Speaker, the Rt Hon Baroness Hayman
16.45 Conclusion/summary
Prof Robert Hazell
17.00 Wine reception
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4 September, 2009
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