Former Deputy Daniel Wimberley has written to the commission considering States reform options with figures showing that the 12 parish Constables do not hold as many important jobs, ask fewer questions, speak less in debates and table fewer propositions than Senators, who are elected Islandwide, or Deputies, who serve parish or sub-parish districts.
In his submission to the commission, the former St Mary Deputy says that 2009 figures show that although the Constables make up a quarter of the non-ministers in the States, they ask 2% of the written questions, and 2.4% of the oral questions.
Mr Wimberley said: ‘It is difficult to see how the Constables can be kept in the States, seeing as they do less work than other members, they are mostly unelected, and they are undemocratic.’
