Political Parties and Elections Bill

The hon. Gentleman has correctly quoted from Sir Hayden Phillips's report. I participated throughout these negotiations, and can tell him that Sir Hayden commissioned a paper on the arms race that drew pretty much the same conclusions as the Pinto-Duschinsky work and that Conservative Members have asked for it to be published. That work was commissioned after Sir Hayden's first report had been published, and I am reasonably confident that he would not have come to the same conclusions had it already been before him.