Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to send an observer to Sark for the Chief Pleas election on 10 December 2014.
The decision to appoint an observer to monitor the election is a matter for The Chief Pleas, the Island's parliament. The Chief Pleas confirmed to my Department last week that they had decided to appoint an independent external election observer to report on the arrangements made for, and the conduct of, the election and make any recommendations for the conduct of future elections that they see fit.