Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alun Cairns and Amber Rudd

Wednesday 18th April 2012 Commons Chamber

[Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan) (Con)]

4. What assessment his Department has made of the responses to its consultation on the proposed referendum on independence for Scotland.

[Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye) (Con)]

8. What assessment his Department has made of the responses to its consultation on the proposed referendum on independence for Scotland.

[The Secretary of State for Scotland (Michael Moore)]

The Government published their response on 4 April. The responses to the consultation gave strong endorsement to a referendum involving a single, clear question on independence, overseen by the Electoral Commission, using the same franchise as that used to elect the Members of the Scottish Parliament, and held sooner rather than later.