Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

The comments of Ron Gould to which the Minister has referred deal, I think, with the previous Scottish and local government elections. Is the Minister aware that on 21 September Ron Gould said in a note to the Committee:"““My basic view is that it would be preferable to separate these two voting activities in order to give the voters the opportunity to focus specifically on each of them””?" To be fair, he also said that the same complexities are not present in both sorts of election. However, he went on to say that the evidence suggests that"““in this event a number of pilot projects and focus groups be carried out to identify any unforeseen problems which might arise.””" Does the Minister intend to undertake such studies before a joint AV referendum and election are proceeded with?