{"value":{"id":628065,"memberId":4284,"member":null,"memberRole":"Minister of State for Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy","uin":"HLWS234","dateMade":"2016-11-03T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":201,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy","title":"Independent Review of Electronic Balloting for Industrial Action Ballots","text":"<p>My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Margot James) has made the following statement:</p><p>Section 4 of The Trade Union Act 2016 specifies that the Government should make provision for an independent Review to consider the delivery of secure methods of electronic balloting of trade union members.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to the independent Review and I am pleased to announce today that Sir Ken Knight CBE, the former Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser for England, will chair the Review.</p><p> </p><p>I am publishing the Terms of Reference in parallel. The Review will start shortly and the final report presented to Parliament no later than December 2017.</p>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":628051,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2016-11-03T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/628065","method":"GET"}]}