There are concerns over the viability of the July 26 date -- some are calling for a postponement till November -- as well as over the impartiality of the National Election Commission and major loopholes in the laws governing the secret ballot.

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Quality has fluctuated too reaching its zenith in Beatrice Webb's minority report to the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws in 1909 (which first floated the idea of the National Health Service) and its nadir in the 1923 report of the Royal Commission on the Fire Brigades, where 10 of the 11 commissioners, including the chairman, signed one or more notes of dissent.

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The Calman Commission had also recommended that the Scottish Parliament should control national speed limits, drink-driving laws and airguns legislation.

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