Political Parties and Elections Bill

I accept that the hon. Lady has a long and honourable history of calling for individual voter registration, but I wonder whether she can recall that we always said that we were in favour of the principle of it but that there were implementation difficulties. She will correct me if I am wrong, but I do not recall any great clamour to improve the comprehensiveness of the register. I was aware of a lot of clamour for the measures for individual registration to be brought in, but I cannot remember her calling for the sort of measures we are now implementing to improve the comprehensiveness of the register. However, it is precisely the move towards individual registration in lock-step and coupled inextricably with measures to achieve the comprehensiveness of the register that we have now managed to secure that makes this historic move possible.