Political Parties and Elections Bill. Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Grand Committee.
Political Parties and Elections Bill
Debate on bills on Wednesday, 18 March 2009,
in the House of Lords,
led by Lord Bach.
The answering
member was Lord Henley.
About these Parliamentary proceedings
Reference
709 c244-91Session
2008-09Legislative stage
Second readingChamber / Committee
House of Lords chamberRelated items
Political Parties and Elections Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 26-EN also published.
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Bills
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Tuesday, 3 March 2009
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Deposited Paper DEP2009-2926
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
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House of Commons
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Bach | 709 c288 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, that may be so. Let us see what comes forward in Committee on this matter.
Lord Clinton-Davis | 709 c288 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, would it not be preferable to have a situation where this issue could be looked at in the ...
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Lord Bach | 709 c288-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we of course take note of what the Electoral Commission says and have great respect for it...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 709 c288 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, do the Government have anything to say about the Electoral Commission’s fear that raising ...
Lord Bach | 709 c290-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I feel very much better for the noble Lord’s last comment and much relieved.
On the next ...
Lord Tyler | 709 c289-90 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, is it not bad legislative practice simply to take account of present circumstances, which ...
Lord Henley | 709 c284-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I join other noble Lords in thanking the Minister for his clear exposition of what is in t...
Lord Rennard | 709 c281-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the quality of today’s debate has been assisted by the high proportion of us who have felt...
Lord Bach | 709 c287-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I think that I should declare an interest—perhaps I should have done so sooner. I am curre...
Lord Goodhart | 709 c273-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I start by declaring an interest as a donor whose constituency donations exceed the report...
Lord Marland | 709 c272-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I speak as a former treasurer to the Conservative Party, from 2004 to 2007. I will largely...
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch | 709 c269-72 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the Labour Party for more than 30 years and as the ch...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 709 c280-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I start by declaring an interest in this Bill in that I am trying to raise money for UKIP,...
Lord Greaves | 709 c277-80 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I agree with a great deal of what the noble Lord, Lord Clinton-Davis, said, particularly t...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 709 c275-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the real issue of this Bill, as I see it, is how we can galvanise our democratic electoral...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 709 c268-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I very much welcome the spirit in which the Minister opened this debate, indicating, under...
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 709 c267-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, if we have a particular security threat, which is a rather specialist case, then the case ...
Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 709 c267 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare a personal interest as someone who has received protection against terrorism in ...
Lord Bach | 709 c257 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I hope that the noble Lord is not blaming the Government: this was a matter for the Chair ...
Lord Tyler | 709 c257 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister. I will draw attention also to the fact that his right honou...
Lord Neill of Bladen | 709 c261 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the Minister for putting that right. I was not quite sure whether it would accept ...
Baroness Gould of Potternewton | 709 c261-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in welcoming the Bill, I must declare an interest as chair of the HS Chapman Society, an o...
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 709 c264-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I support the points that the noble Baroness has just made about the burden on local parti...
Lord Bach | 709 c257 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is our intention that there should be a free vote on that provision in this House, as t...
Lord Tyler | 709 c257-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is extraordinary. It is not for us to criticise the way in which the other place does b...
Lord Neill of Bladen | 709 c258-60 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare an interest, which the Minister alluded to: I was chairman of the Committee on S...
Lord Bach | 709 c260 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is time for a mea culpa, because I was wrong and I want to apologise to the House, so I...
Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 709 c247 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister. He has cited the commission in support of what the Governme...
Lord Bates | 709 c252-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I share the concern—it is shared on all sides of the House—that participation in all volun...
Lord Tyler | 709 c254-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I should first indicate a non-pecuniary and past interest as a member of the cross-party i...
Lord Bates | 709 c250-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in speaking to the Bill I place on record my interest as deputy chairman—and, as such, an ...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 709 c252 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, is the noble Lord not being unduly optimistic about the contribution made by members of al...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 709 c250 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, can the Minister tell the House at what stage those amendments will surface? Will they sur...
Lord Bach | 709 c250 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is our intention that they will surface in Committee—probably at a later stage in Commi...
Lord Bach | 709 c248-50 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as I understand it, the commission suggested that the figure of £200 was too low. Later to...
Lord Bach | 709 c247 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I do not think that it is difficult to justify, but I am sure that from now on it will be ...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 709 c247 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, would it not have been possible to have investigated the situation from year to year, rath...
Lord Bach | 709 c244 (Link to this contribution)
That the Bill be read a second time.
Lord Bach | 709 c244-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the legislation before us forms part of a long-standing debate on the regulation of UK par...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 709 c247 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, does not the increase from £200 to £500 represent an increase way above the current rate o...
Lord Bach | 709 c247 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as I understand it, the Electoral Commission suggested that there should be an above-infla...
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