Electoral Administration Bill

But for Easter, we would be moving even more speedily. The difficulty we have is the Easter Recess. Noble Lords will know that I am absolutely the last person to be in control of the timetabling of any piece of legislation. However, I hope we will come back to these issues in probably the second week we are back after Easter, so the last week of April, which gives us only a few days before the Easter Recess and then a whole week when we get back to table the amendments. That is a challenging timetable, because at the same time we are seeking to get as much consensus as we can. On the issues that have been raised, we need the best possible opportunity for parliamentary counsel to draft as tightly as possible, and to deal with the issues as properly as we can. That is my ambition. We do not want to leave it much later than that, not least because the timetable for the other measures in this Bill is important to us as well. The Easter Recess is the reason it may feel further away than it actually is. Noble Lords can cancel their holidays and come in if they want, but I am not sure I want to cancel mine. We will try and do this as quickly as we can, for exactly the reasons the noble Lord gave.