Houses of Parliament
Houses of Parliament
PARLIAMENTARY SELECT COMMITTEE ON ELECTORAL PROCESS,
PARLIAMENT OF MALAYSIA,
WORKING VISIT TO UNITED KINGDOM,
22 FEBRUARY 2012
DRAFT PROGRAMME - SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Programme
Wednesday 22 fEBRUARY
09:00
Meeting with Mark Harper MP, Minister for Political and
Constitutional Reform
Cabinet Office
09:45
Arrive in Parliament, Coffee and Briefing
IPU Room
10:00
Roundtable 1 with MPs:
• Challenges of getting the vote out
• Non-Resident voters
• Postal votes
• Relationships in the constituency
• Relations with the media (local and national)
IPU Room
Roundtable 2 with MPs:
• Parliamentary constituency boundaries
• Boundary change process
• Impact of proposed changes
IPU Room
11:45
Meeting with Electoral Reform International Services (ERIS)
Keith Best (Chair) and Chris Childs
IPU Room
12:45
Attend Open Forum with UK Parliamentarians and the Hon.
Andrew Scheer MP, Speaker of the Canadian House of
Commons.
11:00
CPA Room
Halal lunch available
13:45
Group photograph, break
Westminster Hall
14:00
Meeting with Jeremy Browne MP, Minister of State for the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
IPU Room
14:15
Roundtable 3 with Civil Society Organisations:
• Electoral Reform
• An overview of the UK electoral system
• Details of our overseas voting process
• The work of the boundary commission, constituency
delineation etc.
• Access to the media by political parties during the
election campaign
• Arrangements for ‘caretaker government’ during an
election
IPU Room
15:15
Depart for meeting at the Boundary Commission for England
List of Delegates
1.
Hon. Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Maximus Johnity
Ongkili
Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation
Chairman of Parliamentary Special Select Committee
On Electoral Process
Member of Parliament for Kota Marudu (BN – PBS)
17.
Mr. Zakaria bin Awi
National Registration Department of Malaysia
18.
Mr. Ruslan bin Alias
National Registration Department of Malaysia
2.
Hon. Dato’ Seri Mohd Radzi bin Sheikh Ahmad
Member of Parliament for Kangar (BN – UMNO)
3.
Hon. Tan Sri Dr. Fong Chan Onn
Member of Parliament for Alor Gajah (BN – MCA)
4.
Hon. Datuk Alexander Nanta Linggi
Member of Parliament for Kapit (BN- PBB)
5.
Hon. Mr. Kamalanthan a/l Panchanathan
Member of Parliament for Hulu Selangor (BN – MIC)
6.
Hon. Mr. Mohamed Azmin bin Ali
Member of Parliament for Gombak (PKR)
7.
Hon. Mr. Loke Siew Fook
Member of Parliament for Rasah (DAP)
8.
Hon. Dr. Mohd Hatta bin Md. Ramli
Member of Parliament for Kuala Krai (PAS)
9.
Hon Mr. Wee Choo Keong
Member of Parliament for Wangsa Maju (BEBAS)
10.
Mdm Datuk Roosme binti Hamzah
Secretary of Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives)
Secretary of Parliamentary Special Select Committee
On Electoral Process (019-2606973)
11.
Datuk Benard Maraat
Senior Officer for Hon. Minister of Science, Technology &
Innovation
12.
Mr. Noor Rasidi bin Abdul Latif
Parliament of Malaysia
13.
Mr. Mohd Ikram Rahimi (Secretary of Delegation)
Parliament of Malaysia (019-3596067)
14.
Dato Noordin bin Che Ngah
Election Commission of Malaysia
15.
Mr. Mohd Azhar bin Mohd Yusoff
Election Commission of Malaysia
16.
Ms. Rafidah binti Datu Derin
Ministry of Home Affairs
Note:
BN
Barisan Nasional (National Front)
UMNO
United Malays National Organisation
MCA
Malaysian Chinese Association
MIC
Malaysian Indian Congress
PBS
Parti Bersatu Sarawak (United
Sarawak Party)
PBB
Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu
Sarawak (Sarawak United
Bumiputra Heritage Party)
PKR
Parti Keadilan Rakyat (Peoples Justice Party)
DAP
Democratic Action Party
BEBASIndependent
Head of Delegation
The Honourable Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Maximus Ongkili
Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation
Member of Parliament for Kota Marudu
The Honourable Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Maximus Ongkili has a Degree in Agricultural Science and PhD in Agricultural
Economic from the La Trobe University. He was made a Distinguished Alumni of the university in April 2009.
Datuk Seri Panglima Dr Ongkili worked as a lecturer with Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (now Universiti Putra
Malaysia) and later held senior research positions with the Institute of Strategic and International (ISIS) Malaysia (19851987) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Sabah, where he was Executive Director/CEO from 1991 to 1994.
Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Ongkili also completed fellowship and summer programmes at the United Nations
University (Tokyo), Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), Boston and Oxford University SAID
Business School.
His foray into politics began in early 1994 when he was nominated to stand as a Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS)
candidate in the Sabah State Elections, and won the state seat of Langkon. In the party, he was made PBS SecretaryGeneral before being elevated to his present post as PBS Deputy President in October 1994.
He has been MP for Kota Marudu in Sabah since 1995, and a three-term member of the Sabah State Legislative
Assembly from 1994 to 2008. He is Chairman of the party’s Disciplinary Committee and also heads the party’s Research
and Training Bureau. He is also currently Deputy President of the Kadazan-Dusun Cultural Association (KDCA) Sabah.
Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Johnity Ongkili was first appointed into the Cabinet in 2004 when he was made
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department holding the portfolio of national unity and integration, from March 2004 to
March 2008. After the March 2008 General Election, he was given the post of Federal Minister of Science, Technology
and Innovation.
Prior to his appointment as a Federal Minister, he had served as Science & Technology Advisor to the Chief
Minister of Sabah (2003-2004). He also served for two terms as member of the Public Accounts Committee both in
Parliament and the Sabah Legislative Assembly.
Other posts he held included as member of the National IT Council (NITC), member of the National Service
(NS) Advisory Board (2002-2004), Chairman of the Select Committee on National Unity and National Service (20042009) and Chairman of the Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) from 2004 to 2008.
Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Ongkili currently holds chairmanship of the Malaysian Innovation Foundation (YIM),
a foundation he created under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation to push the innovation efforts in the
country. In October 2011, he was appointed by Parliament to head a nine-member Parliamentary Select Committee on
electoral reforms which was tasked to find ways to improve the electoral process within a six-month period.
As a tribute to the distinctive role he plays in making innovation the foundation of Malaysia’s economic and
social transformation, the LimKokWing University of Creative Technology conferred him the Honorary Doctorate of
Leadership in Innovation on Dec 17, 2011.
Delegate
The Honourable dR MOHD HATTA BIN Md RAMLI
Member of Parliament for Kuala Krai
Public Health Physician
Age: 55
Party: Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS)
Position: Central Committee Member and Director of Election
Delegate
P KAMALANATHAN a/l P. PANCHANATHAN PJK., APR., MIPR
Member of Parliament – Hulu Selangor
Public Relations Manager
Age:45 years
Party: Malaysian Indian Congress
Delegate
Tan Sri Dr Fong Chan Onn
Member of Parliament – Selandar/Alor Gajah, Melaka
Chairman of Economic Bureau and Institute of Strategic Analysis and Policy Research
Chairman, MCA Economic Policy Bureau
Member of Presidential Council
Chairman, MCA Kelantan State Liaison Committee
Chairman, MCA Melaka
Chairman of SEDA (Sustainable Energy Development Authority), Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water,
Malaysia
Age:67 years
Party: Malaysian Chinese Association
ERIS
Electoral Reform International Services is a not-for-profit non-governmental organisation.
We have worked in over 70 countries and provided experts for international agencies,
governments, election management bodies, non-governmental organisations, and other key
democracy institutions.
ERIS provides support to strengthen democratic institutions, processes and culture around
the world. We cover the full spectrum of democracy assistance and advice.
We are supported by a network of over 800 expert consultants. Working with our staff and
Board members, the ERIS network of experts can provide advice and assistance on all
stages of the electoral and the wider democratic process.
The ERIS database includes election administrators, civil society activists, former
parliamentarians and local councillors, party organisers, academics, lawyers, statisticians,
logisticians, journalists and information specialists. As a point of principle we can provide
experts from the global ‘South’ as well as from the ‘North’.
Keith Best - Chair
Keith Best has been Chairman of ERIS since 2007. He is the Chief Executive of the Medical Foundation for
the Care of Victims of Torture, and was Chief Executive of the Immigration Advisory Service from 1993-2009.
A barrister and former MP, he was awarded the Territorial Decoration after serving in airborne and commando
forces, and left with the rank of major. He was formerly Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of
State for Wales and Director of Prisoners Abroad .
He is currently Chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global
Policy, which seeks improved international structures on federalist principles with observer status at the UN.
He was also Chairman of the Association of Registered Immigration Advisers. He chaired the national charity
the Electronic Immigration Network for ten years and is still a Trustee, and was formerly Chairman of the
Electoral Reform Society (and still on the Council).
Christopher Child - Senior Professional Officer and Business Development Manager
He was formerly Head of the Democracy Section in the Political Affairs Division of the Commonwealth
Secretariat. Prior to that he worked in the private office of the Leader of the British Labour Party and was
Deputy Secretary of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement.
The Boundary Commission for England
The Boundary Commission for England is an independent and impartial
advisory non-departmental public body and is sponsored by the Cabinet
Office. Its primary responsibility is to review all Parliamentary constituencies
in England
The Commission is required by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 to review the Parliamentary
constituencies in England every five years.
There are separate Boundary Commissions for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and at a local level.
For more information go to:
http://consultation.boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk/about-us/
The Electoral Reform Society
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The Electoral Reform Society is an independent campaigning organisation working to
champion the rights of voters and improve UK democracy.
The mission of the Electoral Reform Society is to secure at all levels of representation an
electoral system which will:
Ensure all votes have equal value
Give effective representation to all significant points of view within the electorate
Allow electors to vote for their preferred candidates without fear of wasting their votes
Ensure the accountability of individual representatives to their electorates
Minister Biographies
Mr Mark Harper MP
Minister for Political and Constitutional Reform.
Cabinet Office
Member of Parliament for the Forest of Dean.
Conservative
He works with the Deputy PM on Fixed Term Parliaments, referendum
on Alternative Voting system, boundary changes, reduction in the number of
MPs, Support for disabled people to become MPs, recall of MPs, elected second
chamber, individual voter registration, Commission to consider the West Lothian
Question, statutory register of lobbyists, reform of party funding and all postal primaries.
In Opposition, the Minister was Shadow Minister for Disabled People (July 2007-May 2010), Shadow
Minister for Defence (December 2005-July 2007).
The Minister grew up in Swindon, where he attended Headlands School and Swindon College. He went on
to Brasenose College, Oxford and graduated in 1991 with Upper Second-Class Honours in Politics, Philosophy
and Economics.
The Minister qualified in 1995 as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG and, until 2002, worked for Intel
Corporation in a variety of roles including finance, business operations and marketing before establishing his
own chartered accountancy practice in the Forest of Dean. He also served as a Governor at Newent Community
School from November 2000 to July 2005.
Mr Jeremy Browne MP
Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Member of Parliament for Taunton Deane.
Liberal Democrat
Far East and South East Asia, India, Nepal, Latin America, Australasia and
Pacific, Caribbean, Emerging Powers Co-ordination, Olympics, Human Rights, Consular, policy, Migration,
Public Diplomacy and Drugs and International Crime.
He has held various positions in the Liberal Democrat party, including as spokesman on Foreign Affairs
and most recently as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. He has also been a member of the cross-party
Home Affairs Committee.
Jeremy grew up in many different countries including Iran and Zimbabwe. He studied politics at
Nottingham University and has worked in the private sector in finance and global communications.
Controller, BBC Parliament
Peter Knowles is the editor of the radio programmes Today In Parliament and
Yesterday In Parliament, the TV channel BBC Parliament and the newly launched
website Democracy Live.
The Parliamentary Programmes team produces BBC Radio 4’s Today In Parliament,
which began life in 1945, and Yesterday In Parliament, just two years younger! It also
produces the daily digest of Westminster debate in The Record, for BBC Parliament
and the BBC News Channel.
BBC Parliament is the digital TV channel for debate and ideas, with coverage from Westminster, the devolved
Parliament and Assemblies and the European Parliament. The channel shows uninterrupted coverage of debates
and hearings as well as daily and weekly political programmes. Showings of historic elections and other archive
programmes have been especially popular with viewers.
Democracy Live launched in November 2009 at bbc.co.uk/democracylive. It offers live and on-demand video
coverage of the UK’s national political institutions and the European Parliament.
Peter’s career in journalism began with Carlisle News Agency and Border TV in 1984.
Joining the BBC as a news trainee, he worked in the Manchester and Leeds newsrooms before going to the Nine
O’Clock News as a producer, at the time of the first Gulf War.
In 1991 Peter became one of the first output editors on the new BBC World Service Television News and he was later
appointed news editor for BBC World. He was responsible for the output during the war in Kosovo.He was overnight
output editor for BBC Television News on the night of the death of Princess Diana.
He became Managing Editor, Television News, responsible for BBC News 24 and BBC World, in 1999.
Peter joined BBC Parliament in 2001.
Peter was born in 1961 in Bolton. He was educated at Bolton School, studied English at St Catherine’s College,
Oxford, and took an MBA at Bradford University.
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK Branch
About CPA UK
The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) is an active network of
over 17,000 parliamentarians from Commonwealth Parliaments and Legislatures.
Through dialogue, it seeks to foster co-operation and understanding between
Parliaments, promote good parliamentary practice and advance parliamentary
democracy.
Every Commonwealth legislature that joins the CPA is invited to form an autonomous CPA branch. This
includes not only national legislatures, but state, provincial and territorial legislatures. A truly global body, the
CPA currently comprises 175 Branches over 6 continents and in 54 countries worldwide.
The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK Branch (CPA UK) is one of the largest and most active
branches in the CPA community and delivers a unique annual programme both in Westminster and overseas.
Governed by an Executive Committee of parliamentarians from all main parties, CPA UK works to encourage
parliamentary diplomacy and parliamentary strengthening on behalf of the UK Parliament and the wider CPA.
Through activities including conferences, seminars and delegations CPA UK provides members with a
practical, current and first-hand perspective on international issues facing fellow parliamentarians across the
Commonwealth. This equips them to better scrutinise Government action on foreign affairs and international
development issues, and can inform debates in the House. In many cases it also enhances members’
understanding of issues facing diaspora communities in the UK. CPA UK activities often serves as a launchpad for coordinated international action between parliamentarians, laying the foundations for long-lasting
positive relationships between individuals, committees and All Party Parliamentary Groups
General Information
Photography within the Palace of Westminster
Photography is prohibited within the Palace of Westminster with the exception of the CPA Room and
Westminster Hall.
Security Passes
For security reasons, delegates are asked to wear their security passes at all times on the parliamentary
estate. As the passes are official documents, they will need to be returned to CPA UK prior to departure.
CPA UK
The CPA UK Branch office is located at Westminster Hall, Houses of Parliament, London SW1A 0AA.
Contact details
General office: +44 (0)20 7219 5373
Internal extension: 5373
Fax: +44 (0)20 7233 1202
E-mail: cpa@parliament.uk
Website: www.parliament.uk/cpauk
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK Branch
Governance and Staff Structure
PRESIDENTS
Rt Hon. John Bercow MP
Speaker of the House of Commons, UK Parliament
Rt Hon. Baroness D’Souza
Lord Speaker, UK Parliament
CHAIRMAN OF THE BRANCH
Rt Hon. David Cameron MP
Prime Minister of the UK
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Chair
Rt Hon. Sir Alan Haselhurst MP
Joint Vice-Chairmen
Rt Hon. Professor Lord McColl of Dulwich CBE
Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods MP
Ms Pauline Latham OBE MP
cpa uk Personel
Director
Commonwealth and International Relations
Mr Andrew Tuggey DL
Deputy Director
Commonwealth and International Relations
Ms Helen Haywood
Assistant Directors - Commonwealth and International
Relations
Ms Kirsty Jackson
Ms Susan Holmes
Ms Hatty Cooper
Ms Ann Hodkinson
Assistant Director - Finance, Administration and HR
Ms Edith David
Honorary Treasurer
Rt Hon. Kevin Barron MP
Operations and Communications Manager
Ms Victoria Bower
Regional Representative
Mr Hugh Bayley MP
Senior International Relations Officers
Ms Morna Richards
Ms Rachel Cox
Ms Claire Bowman
mEMBERS
Rt Hon. Lord Anderson of Swansea DL
Rt Hon. Baroness Boothroyd OM
Rt Hon. Malcolm Bruce MP
Rt Hon. Baroness Corston
Mr Alan Cairns MP
Lord Dholakia OBE DL
Rt Hon. Jeffrey Donaldson MP
Rt. Hon. Lord Foulkes of Comnock
Rt Hon. David Hanson MP
Baroness Hooper CMG
Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger MP
Ms Anne McIntosh MP
Rt Hon. Alun Michael MP
Mr John Robertson MP
Mr Andrew Rosindell MP
Mr Gavin Williamson MP
International Relations Officers
Mr Matthew Salik
Ms Charlotte Restorick
Communications Officer
Ms Julia Beck
Finance and Adminstrative Assistant
Ms Rital Patel
HR Advisor
Ms Alison Macdonald
Project Officer
Ms Mariam El-Azm
Seminar Assistant
Ms Rebekah Light
CPA UK