Island hosts standing committee of CSPOC
PARLIAMENTARIANS from Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Samoa, Tonga and the UK are in the island this weekend.
Guernsey is hosting the meeting of the standing committee of the Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth, with guests including House of Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle, who has held his role since 2019.
The business of the meeting took place yesterday.
‘CSPOC is an important institution in strengthening parliamentary and democratic values around the Commonwealth,’ said a spokesman for the Bailiff's Office.
‘Membership of the CSPOC is of great importance to Guernsey’s international profile and it is a great privilege for the island to be welcoming these eminent parliamentarians.’
The CSPOC is an independent group created in 1969 and operates on a two-year cycle, holding a conference of full membership every two years, usually in early January, and a meeting of the standing committee at the same time in the intervening year.
It has no formal affiliation with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, the Commonwealth Secretariat or the Commonwealth Heads of Government.
Both Jersey and the Isle of Man have also hosted meetings of the standing committee in recent years.
