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Single Legal Entity Consultation Response
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Election of Legislative Council
Keys members are jealous of their primary legislative role and are reluctant to sanction any election procedure which lessons their primacy. Council members on the whole do not want constituencies as they feel that they might then become bogged down by local problems. Freedom of Information Act 2015 receives Royal Assent
That was the announcement given at the start of June Tynwald but no celebrations yet, as before the public can make use of it, an Appointed Day Order is required. So watch out for that! Also remember to start with FOI requests can only be submitted to DEFA and The Cabinet Office. In the meantime to find out information from the rest of government we must resort to the 1996 Code of Practice on Access to Government Information. That's what one PAG member has recently done to the Department of Infrastructure - here it is: |
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'The real reason the 'Single Legal Entity' is being promoted locally is because senior civil servants in the Isle of Man sense an opportunity to grab more power from the politicians. The reason it is being promoted from Scotland is because of vested interests waiting in the wings to market, in the Isle of Man, lucrative performance management programmes created in America.'
There has been much controversy but little resolution as to how the upper chamber of Tynwald should be elected. However, one clear objective is apparent in that it must be publicly elected in the future – the electoral college route being deemed as anachronistic.
Over the last week Positive Action Group sent out a questionnaire to all candidates standing in the Douglas North and Douglas South byelections.
