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Debate between Alun Cairns and Amber Rudd
Wednesday 18th April 2012
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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.