To ask the hon. Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission when the Electoral Commission’s five-year plan 2007-08 to 2011-12 is expected to be published. (138104)

The Electoral Commission’s Corporate Plan 2007-08 to 2011-12 (HC474), approved by the Speaker’s Committee on 21 March, was laid before the House by the Committee on 9 May. Copies are available in the Vote Office. The Commission informs me that it has also published the plan on its website and that paper copies will be generally available shortly.

To ask the hon. Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission what consideration the Speaker’s Committee has given to the response of the Electoral Commission to the report by the Committee on Standards in Public Life on the work of the Commission, Cm. 7006. (138199)

The Electoral Commission has sent to the Speaker’s Committee a copy of its published response to the recommendations of the eleventh report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. The Speaker’s Committee is in the process of considering its own response to the report and, in doing so, will take due account of the Commission’s observations.