Lords Polling Committee to quiz IMPRESS Chief Exec
The House of Lords Committee on Political Polling and Digital Media will tomorrow take evidence from Jonathan Heawood, Chief Executive Officer of press regulator IMPRESS.
The Committee will also take evidence via video link from French political scientists on the regulation and methodology of political polling in France and how it differs from the UK.
The evidence sessions will start at 10:30am on Tuesday 21 November in Committee Room 2 of the House of Lords. The full details are:
10:30am (via video link)
- Nicolas Sauger, Associate Professor at the Sciences Po, Centre d'études européennes and Co-Director of the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP)
- Dr Bruno Cautrès, Researcher at the Sciences Po, Centre for Political Research and Research Fellow, Senior National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
11:30am
- Jonathan Heawood, Chief Executive Officer, IMPRESS.
In the first session the Committee will ask the witnesses about the performance of French pollsters in recent elections, and in particular the 2017 presidential election; the role of the Commission de Sondages in regulating the polling industry in France; and the ban on the publication of polls in France in the run-up to an election.
In the session with Jonathan Heawood the Committee will ask how IMPRESS approaches its regulatory role, how the media used political opinion polling during recent elections, and whether further regulation is needed in relation to political reporting on social media.
