I'm just trying to find the list of candidates we put out in 2011. We circulated it about two weeks before the polling day. It was a little booklet with a full record of parliamentary service of each candidate and a 75-word statement by each. People basically had two weeks either to cast their postal vote or to decide.
I appreciate that this sort of system would not really be relevant to an election you were holding immediately after the start of a new Parliament, but because we're not in that situation, it's relatively straightforward to allow candidates plenty of time. Indeed, an innovation in 2011 was that we had a hustings meeting run by the Hansard Society, a highly respected organization promoting parliamentary democracy and interest in Parliament in the UK, and all but one of the candidates attended and asked questions. It was filmed and then broadcast on the BBC Parliament channel.