§ The Minister for Local Government, Regional Governance and Fire (Mr. Nick Raynsford)My right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs have today issued a joint consultation document seeking views on draft Statutory Instruments which would make provision for the conduct of European parliamentary elections in Great Britain and Gibraltar, for the combination of polls of these elections and certain other elections in England and Wales, for amendments to the Greater London Authority election rules, and for giving effect to the Government's announced intention to move the date of the English local council and Greater London Authority elections in 2004, so that they take place at the same time as the European parliamentary elections.
Comments are invited from key stakeholders and interested parties for the deadline of 11 December 2003.
Copies of these documents are available in the Libraries of the House and will also be available on the OPDM and DCA websites.