People in Guernsey and Sark have got the chance to quiz our Bailiwick Commissioners this week.
Alderney is involved too, but the Commissioners won’t be travelling to the island this week.
Instead their time will be focused in Guernsey on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with a visit to Sark on Tuesday.
The various events have all been designed to allow members of the public the chance to meet the Commissioners and speak with them about their work.
Together they’ve been appointed to conduct a “comprehensive review of the constitutional, economic and working relationships” between the islands of our Bailiwick.
That work is expected to take up to 18 months, with a budget of £500,000, and the ultimate aim of working out how “the Bailiwick can best meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century”.
The Commission also has to consider “how to maintain the independence and unique characteristics of each island and for the Bailiwick as a whole”.
They started work together in February meaning we should find out what they’ve discovered by the end of next year.
The Bailiwick Commissioners
Sir Robert Neill KC is Chair of the Bailiwick Commission with Dr Lisa Cameron, Lord Carwyn Jones, Professor Caroline Morris, and Philip Rycroft all making up the panel.
Between them they have experience as the UK MP for Local Government, in devolved administrations, as a Professor in Constitutional Law, and more widely working within the UK civil service.
Together they’ve been appointed to conduct a “comprehensive review of the constitutional, economic and working relationships” between the islands of our Bailiwick.
None of them live in the Bailiwick but they’ve been tasked with considering “how to maintain the independence and unique characteristics of each island and for the Bailiwick as a whole”.
