Professor David Farrell:

I would like to reinforce the final point about creating more quangos, as it has come up twice. All of us around the table, and we are not alone in this, have repeatedly been saying that introducing an electoral commission would reduce the number of quangos. The Boundary Commission, the party register, the referendum commission and the Standards in Public Office Commission will all be replaced by one body, with one judge rather than several. We would actually be making government more efficient.