Wessex Constitutional Convention

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The Wessex Constitutional Convention is a UK all-party pressure group with the following stated aims:

To achieve the broadest consensus on the form of self-government appropriate for Wessex.
To campaign for the implementation of that consensus at the earliest possible opportunity.
To oppose the continuing partition of Wessex between the 'South-West' and 'South-East' regions.
To promote as Wessex the area comprising the eight traditional counties of Berkshire, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire, subject to addition or subtraction according to popular wish.

The Convention was formed at Exeter on 19 May 2001, in response to the perceived failure of the South West Constitutional Convention, meeting earlier that day, to allow genuine dialogue on the issue of regional boundaries. From then until the start of 2005 it published a quarterly newsletter, Wessex Voice, and led the production of The Case for Wessex (2002)^[1], the joint response of the Wessex movement to the regional governance White Paper, Your Region, Your Choice.

During 2003-2005, the Convention actively participated in the Continuing Commission on the South, set up by the political think-tank "Devolve!" and chaired by former regions minister Dr. Alan Whitehead, MP. More recently, it has again taken an independent line in presenting evidence to the House of Commons ODPM Select Committee^[2] and the Examination in Public into the draft Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West.

[edit] See also

Wessex Regionalist Party

[edit] References

^ The Case for Wessex, Wessex Constitutional Convention, 2002, ISBN 0-9544667-0-5
^ House of Commons ODPM Committee, Report on the Draft Regional Assemblies Bill, 2004, ISBN 0-215-01939-3 (HC 972-II, Ev 29)

[1] The Case for Wessex, Wessex Constitutional Convention, 2002, ISBN 0-9544667-0-5