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Political Parties and Elections Bill

Debate on bills on Monday, 13 July 2009, in the House of Commons.
Political Parties and Elections Bill. Motion for extension of carry over of proceedings until 29 October 2009 agreed to on division (283 votes to 196). Programme motion (No. 4) on proceedings on consideration of Lords amendments and subsequent stages. Agreed to on division (282 votes to 194). Consideration of Lords amendments. Lords amendments 11 and 12 disagreed to, with Commons amendments made in lieu. Remaining Lords amendments agreed to.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

496 c44-123 

Session

2008-09

Department

Ministry of Justice

Legislative stage

Lords amendments and Commons amendments

Procedure

Programme motions
Carry-over motions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Political Parties and Elections Bill. Lords amendments. Explanatory Notes Bill 136-EN also published.
Thursday, 9 July 2009
Bills
House of Commons
Political Parties and Elections Bill. Commons disagreements and amendments in lieu.
Monday, 13 July 2009
Bills
House of Lords
Political Parties and Elections Bill
Monday, 20 October 2008
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 496 c95 (Link to this contribution) I must draw the House's attention to the fact that privilege is involved in Lords amendment 33. If t...
Speaker | 496 c58 (Link to this contribution) I must draw the House's attention to the fact that privilege is involved in Lords amendment 33. If t...

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Christopher Chope | 496 c116 (Link to this contribution) In that case, will the Minister accept the suggestion made by the hon. Member for Cambridge, who sai...
Lord Wills | 496 c116 (Link to this contribution) Exactly; that is precisely what the legislation prescribes. The Electoral Commission will make the r...
Lord Wills | 496 c109 (Link to this contribution) May I be clear about what the hon. Lady means? Is she saying that a future Government might take ris...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 496 c109-10 (Link to this contribution) I can assure the Minister and the House that any future Conservative Government would never take ris...
David Howarth | 496 c111-2 (Link to this contribution) There are two sub-groups in this group of amendments. The first is about the CORE scheme and setting...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 496 c112 (Link to this contribution) It would if those young people were Conservative or Labour voters.
David Howarth | 496 c112-3 (Link to this contribution) All that I can say to the hon. Lady is that that is not our experience. The fundamental point—the po...
Christopher Chope | 496 c113-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall say a few words about the timetable relating to individual voter registration. I have taken ...
Lord Wills | 496 c114-6 (Link to this contribution) We have had an extremely interesting exchange of views, and I am grateful for all contributions to t...
Christopher Chope | 496 c108 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to rain on my hon. Friend's parade, but does she accept that to delay this until 2015, wh...
Lord Wills | 496 c107 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady raises a very important issue because that is precisely the point: she takes it for gr...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 496 c107-8 (Link to this contribution) But I agree with the Minister on that point, and I always have done. However, some Members on his Ba...
Lord Wills | 496 c100 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her constructive approach. I shall now deal with the detail of t...
David Howarth | 496 c100 (Link to this contribution) I am slightly concerned about the order-making power's breadth. To give a specific example, will the...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 496 c100 (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree with the Minister. I understand his point and I simply wish to reassure him and th...
Lord Wills | 496 c107 (Link to this contribution) I accept that the hon. Lady has a long and honourable history of calling for individual voter regist...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 496 c107 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the points the Minister is making—and I am grateful to him for giving us Conservatives ...
Lord Wills | 496 c101-6 (Link to this contribution) As I said, our view is that the identifiers should be a national insurance number, a signature and d...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 496 c106-7 (Link to this contribution) Conservative Members do not disagree with the Government in any respect on Lords amendment 33. It is...
Lord Wills | 496 c119 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Lady will recast her formulation that we have changed our mind. She knows that we h...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 496 c119-20 (Link to this contribution) I agree that the Minister has attempted to achieve consensus. I thought that we had achieved it on t...
Lord Wills | 496 c117-9 (Link to this contribution) Yes, precisely because they are smaller. Lords amendments 3 and 4 are consequential amendments. Lo...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 496 c119 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will be delighted to know that I do not intend to oppose any of these amendments. He ha...
Speaker | 496 c116 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Lords amendments 2 to 8, 51 to 65 and 99.
Lord Wills | 496 c116 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 1.
Lord Wills | 496 c117 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his indefatigable persistence in raising this point—that is a g...
Pete Wishart | 496 c117 (Link to this contribution) The Minister knows that I have an interest in this issue. Is there any reason whatsoever why the thr...
David Howarth | 496 c120-1 (Link to this contribution) None of the matters that we are considering is now enormously contentious, but I want to make one or...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 496 c121 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, because he knows what I am going to say. Even th...
Pete Wishart | 496 c121 (Link to this contribution) It will not surprise the Minister that I wish to return to the question of political commissioners, ...
Lord Wills | 496 c122-3 (Link to this contribution) I will try to answer the questions relatively briefly, although, given the non-contentious nature of...
Pete Wishart | 496 c121-2 (Link to this contribution) It is with a due degree of anticipation that I listened to that contribution, and I am not disappoin...
Jonathan Djanogly | 496 c123 (Link to this contribution) Clause 8 creates a new responsibility for donors to political parties to clarify the source of donat...
Speaker | 496 c123 (Link to this contribution) With this, it will be convenient to discuss Lords amendments 10, 13, 28 and 66 to 68.
Lord Mann | 496 c64 (Link to this contribution) I am a little bemused about where all the treasurers with these problems will be. I have examined ev...
Jack Straw | 496 c64 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to disagree with my hon. Friend, but the issue of proportionality—[Interruption.] I also ...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 496 c65 (Link to this contribution) Does the Justice Secretary share my gratitude to the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) for makin...
Jack Straw | 496 c65 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman should not always believe everything that he reads in the newspapers. In fa...
John Redwood | 496 c65 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Jack Straw | 496 c65 (Link to this contribution) Of course—not least so that I can have a cough.
John Redwood | 496 c65 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to give the Secretary of State an opportunity to sort out his cough; I hope that he wil...
Jack Straw | 496 c65-6 (Link to this contribution) I shall have to come back to the right hon. Gentleman on the question of European law, and I will do...
Nick Palmer | 496 c66 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Justice Secretary both for giving way so frequently and for his willingness to ...
Jack Straw | 496 c66-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a matter of record that the commission has said that its role is to apply the law in carrying ...
Speaker | 496 c62 (Link to this contribution) Order. Could we apply the usual rules of debate?
Jack Straw | 496 c62-3 (Link to this contribution) I will draw this exchange to a close, but just say that it illustrates that the hon. Member for Pert...
Nigel Evans | 496 c63 (Link to this contribution) There seems to be a lot of thinking on the hoof here, and I am not sure how well thought through any...
Jack Straw | 496 c63 (Link to this contribution) Typically, those sums are aggregated over a year. If I am wrong, I will let the hon. Gentleman and t...
Geoffrey Cox | 496 c63 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the Secretary of State has considered not only article 11, which he mentioned, but ...
Jack Straw | 496 c63 (Link to this contribution) I think that we are going to have quite a good argument about that one. I heard what the hon. Member...
Bob Spink | 496 c63 (Link to this contribution) I recall that when we debated the Bill a few months ago, I argued that even £500 was too liberal and...
Jack Straw | 496 c63-4 (Link to this contribution) We are seeking to deal with the issue of proportionality. My view is that setting the minimum limit ...
Jack Straw | 496 c63 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I think that that is correct. Otherwise, it would be very easy to evade the limit.
Jonathan Djanogly | 496 c72-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, which I shall return to later. The provision will put off p...
Martin Linton | 496 c73 (Link to this contribution) Is not the problem that has led to the need for the amendment that the Conservative fundraising effo...
Jonathan Djanogly | 496 c73-5 (Link to this contribution) I hope that hon. Members in general will agree that I am trying to advance a reasoned and considered...
John Redwood | 496 c72 (Link to this contribution) As we have been reminded by the Secretary of State, the voluntary tradition in all British parties i...
Jonathan Djanogly | 496 c72 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a very basic, and yet very effective, point that will be reality.
David Howarth | 496 c72 (Link to this contribution) I am still having difficulty following the hon. Gentleman's argument. He argued very strongly for th...
Jonathan Djanogly | 496 c72 (Link to this contribution) I have to say that I never had the opportunity to apply the reasonable excuse defence to these measu...
Nigel Evans | 496 c75 (Link to this contribution) Let us envisage a happy scenario: we have a general election and the Conservative party wins it. We ...
Jonathan Djanogly | 496 c72 (Link to this contribution) I do not know what individual associations do. What I am doing is explaining that this will be prett...
Nick Palmer | 496 c71 (Link to this contribution) I have been listening attentively to the hon. Gentleman's speech for nearly a quarter of an hour. He...
Jonathan Djanogly | 496 c68-9 (Link to this contribution) The roundabout answer to that is no, but I shall explain why later in my remarks, at which point the...
David Howarth | 496 c69 (Link to this contribution) I am finding it difficult to envisage the practical circumstances in which the hon. Gentleman's exam...
Jonathan Djanogly | 496 c67-8 (Link to this contribution) May I first support the Secretary of State's kind words about Lord Kingsland, who was a truly fine g...
Nick Palmer | 496 c68 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman feel that freedom of speech implies a freedom to donate money, which is a pe...
Geoffrey Cox | 496 c67 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the House forgives me, but at the moment I am struggling to understand the rationale for...
Jack Straw | 496 c67 (Link to this contribution) It is a matter of judgment, but all parties have stated their desire to see big money taken out of p...
Jonathan Djanogly | 496 c71 (Link to this contribution) Not in all contexts—absolutely not. Many non-domiciliaries—those with no significant foreign invest...
Lord Mann | 496 c71-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman suggests that parties might take the complicated step of asking to check people's...
David Howarth | 496 c77-8 (Link to this contribution) May I, too, express my sadness at the death of Lord Kingsland? He always made calm, rational, accura...
Jonathan Djanogly | 496 c78 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman saying that somebody who decides to go and work abroad and to become non-resid...
David Howarth | 496 c78 (Link to this contribution) No, in fact, I said the opposite. That is why I differ from the hon. and learned Member for Torridge...
John Redwood | 496 c78 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman then apply the same logic to media groups owned outside the United Kingdom t...
Jonathan Djanogly | 496 c75-6 (Link to this contribution) That could most certainly be the case, and that is a good example of some of the problems with the a...
Geoffrey Cox | 496 c77 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a very powerful critique of the Government's proposals. May I respectfully ...
Jonathan Djanogly | 496 c77 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my hon. and learned Friend makes a fair point. I will not start weighing up the relative merits...
Geoffrey Cox | 496 c78 (Link to this contribution) I have enormous respect for the hon. Gentleman, who is a thoughtful contributor to such debates, but...
David Howarth | 496 c78 (Link to this contribution) I fear going along the lines that the right hon. Gentleman wants me to, but the answer is yes. A fun...
David Howarth | 496 c79 (Link to this contribution) The hon. and learned Gentleman is correct—I do seek a limit and a cap on all donations. If he is arg...
Geoffrey Cox | 496 c80 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentions poor individuals, but those who are in positions not of individual wealt...
David Howarth | 496 c80-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. and learned Gentleman tempts me to go down a different route, but if he returns to the amen...
Kelvin Hopkins | 496 c80 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the hon. Gentleman, but the association between money and freedom is a freedom...
David Howarth | 496 c80 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes the very important point that if we were simply to equate money with politi...
Geoffrey Cox | 496 c79-80 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman seeks to characterise my argument, let me say at once that I might well suppor...
David Howarth | 496 c80 (Link to this contribution) But the hon. and learned Gentleman cannot argue that money equals speech and then argue for a cap. T...
Geoffrey Cox | 496 c79 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman suggests that this is a merely a restriction on donating. This is a matter of fre...
Speaker | 496 c81 (Link to this contribution) Order. After that little exchange, we had better come back to the amendment.
Jack Straw | 496 c81 (Link to this contribution) To suggest that the reason that we did not make progress on the Hayden Phillips proposals was simply...
David Howarth | 496 c81 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I do not accept what the Secretary of State says; I do not think tha...
Gordon Prentice | 496 c81 (Link to this contribution) So far this has been a conversation between lawyers. I am not a lawyer, and I want to alert the Hous...
Graham Stuart | 496 c82 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Bob Spink | 496 c82 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Gordon Prentice | 496 c82 (Link to this contribution) If I am going to give way to the hon. Gentleman I will have to give way first to the hon. Member for...
Graham Stuart | 496 c82 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. As he is aware, the latest figures for Labour pa...
Gordon Prentice | 496 c82 (Link to this contribution) We take what the hon. Gentleman says with a shovelful of salt because in an earlier intervention he ...
Speaker | 496 c82 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the hon. Member for Castle Point (Bob Spink) is allowed an intervention, we should rem...
John Redwood | 496 c84-5 (Link to this contribution) We heard the authentic voice of Labour in that speech from the hon. Member for Pendle (Mr. Prentice)...
Kelvin Hopkins | 496 c85 (Link to this contribution) The simple answer to all that is to have a savage cut in permissible spending on elections.
Bob Spink | 496 c82 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for that advice, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I congratulate the hon. Member for Pendle (...
Gordon Prentice | 496 c83-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point. Why are the amendments needed? I restate this fundamenta...
John Redwood | 496 c86 (Link to this contribution) That is exactly my view, and the view shared, I think, by most Conservative Members. I recommend it ...
Martin Linton | 496 c86-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Pendle (Mr. Prentice) for raising the issue in his original am...
John Redwood | 496 c85 (Link to this contribution) I have rather more sympathy for that view. I have said that I favour a tighter cap on election spend...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 496 c85-6 (Link to this contribution) As always, my right hon. Friend makes a cogent and logical case. Does he not agree that the logic of...
Graham Stuart | 496 c89 (Link to this contribution) In order to be brought back to the measure that we are debating, I shall give way to the hon. Gentle...
Gordon Prentice | 496 c89 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Gordon Prentice | 496 c89 (Link to this contribution) I have a simple question: can the hon. Gentleman tell us whether Lord Ashcroft is a UK resident for ...
Graham Stuart | 496 c88 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the previous speakers, especially the hon. Members for Pendle (Mr. ...
Martin Linton | 496 c88 (Link to this contribution) Of course somebody who goes abroad temporarily to work should retain the right to vote if they wish ...
Graham Stuart | 496 c89 (Link to this contribution) I am not entirely aware of the sums. Lord Ashcroft is the demon in the minds of Labour Members, who ...
Pete Wishart | 496 c88 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has twice mentioned the relatively modest sums secured from such funding. For the...
Graham Stuart | 496 c87 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman realises what an unedifying sight it is to see two Labour Member...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 496 c88 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has acknowledged that he supports the system of overseas voters. Why, therefore, ...
Martin Linton | 496 c87-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should keep his speech for when he is called. What he said has nothing to do with...
Geoffrey Cox | 496 c92 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will forgive me if I do not stray down that particular avenue. I am trying to engage ...
Graham Stuart | 496 c91 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. and learned Friend, like me, bewildered by the Liberal Democrat approach to the issue? It...
Geoffrey Cox | 496 c91 (Link to this contribution) I should understand that, were it a reason for preventing somebody from voting, but the argument is ...
David Howarth | 496 c91 (Link to this contribution) The rational connection is money: the prospective overseas donor has deliberately distanced him or h...
Geoffrey Cox | 496 c90-1 (Link to this contribution) One has just appeared. I must say that I have been reflecting on my right hon. Friend's point as we...
John Redwood | 496 c90 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. and learned Friend think that the weakness of the argument is the reason there are now ...
Geoffrey Cox | 496 c90 (Link to this contribution) I am going to steer away from partisan rhetoric, because there are some fundamental points that must...
Graham Stuart | 496 c89-90 (Link to this contribution) I can tell the hon. Gentleman straightforwardly that I have absolutely no idea; it is entirely a mat...
Graham Stuart | 496 c95 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State's clarification again shows how important it is to take time to get such legi...
Jack Straw | 496 c94-5 (Link to this contribution) No, because I think I would be brought back into order if I did so. The hon. Member for Ribble Vall...
Jack Straw | 496 c95 (Link to this contribution) I think I need more than that. I am going to stop now; I think that would be wise, in the interests...
Geoffrey Cox | 496 c92-3 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend may well be right. I want to concentrate on the question of whether the propos...
Geoffrey Cox | 496 c94 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State, almost certainly for reasons of forensic and rhetorical flourish, is misrepr...
Jack Straw | 496 c93-4 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I should like to respond to the debate. It has been...
Geoffrey Cox | 496 c94 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Jack Straw | 496 c94 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to seeing further particulars of that proposal, especially as the other bit of the Co...
Lord Wills | 496 c100 (Link to this contribution) It would be a rash politician who ever said "never", but when the hon. Lady has heard the rest of my...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 496 c100 (Link to this contribution) I understand the Minister's point about 2014 and the amount of work that has to be done, but if matt...
Lord Wills | 496 c98-9 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Lady, and I look forward to her support for the amendments as a resul...
Lord Wills | 496 c95 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 33.
Lord Wills | 496 c96-8 (Link to this contribution) Of course I accept that, and I said that the corporation sole must be demonstrably independent of th...
David Howarth | 496 c96 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the need for flexibility, but will the Minister say a bit more about what sort of body ...
Lord Wills | 496 c95-6 (Link to this contribution) These amendments were introduced on Report in the Lords and accepted without debate. They are seen a...
Speaker | 496 c95 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to consider the following: Lords amendments 34 to 47, 50, 96 to 98,1...
Graham Stuart | 496 c48 (Link to this contribution) So that Labour MPs in particular, who have the majority in this House, were able to spend public mon...
Speaker | 496 c48 (Link to this contribution) Order. The motion under discussion is the carry-over motion. Can we please keep to that motion in th...
David Howarth | 496 c49 (Link to this contribution) The problem is that very short debates were followed by very long intervals without debates, and tha...
Speaker | 496 c49 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No Lobby.
Bob Spink | 496 c48 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I shall abide by your wishes and not be distracted away from the mo...
Lord Wills | 496 c48 (Link to this contribution) As always, we have had a very interesting little exchange on these matters, but the contributions fr...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 496 c48 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman realise quite how offensive it is to suggest that the Opposition need ...
Lord Wills | 496 c49 (Link to this contribution) With great respect to the right hon. Gentleman, I certainly would not want to cause any offence what...
Lord Wills | 496 c44 (Link to this contribution) That concerns me as well, which is why I stressed our determination to complete the Bill's passage b...
Jonathan Djanogly | 496 c44-5 (Link to this contribution) I think it fair to say that the Minister and I, and our respective teams, have come a long way with ...
Bob Spink | 496 c48 (Link to this contribution) I am not at all surprised that the Conservative party oppose the Bill. I want to see it come on to t...
Graham Stuart | 496 c48 (Link to this contribution) Did the hon. Gentleman also think that it was an abuse when the incumbent Government decided to add ...
John Redwood | 496 c47 (Link to this contribution) I thought that the hon. Gentleman was keen to disagree—I am delighted that I have the agreement of t...
Chris Ruane | 496 c47 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend the Minister guarantee that there will be sufficient time to discuss the i...
John Redwood | 496 c46-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pity that the Government wish to rush through what could turn out to be a bungled and unsati...
Chris Ruane | 496 c47 (Link to this contribution) No, sorry. I thought that the right hon. Gentleman was going to finish.
David Howarth | 496 c45-6 (Link to this contribution) As the Minister said, Standing Order No. 80A(13) provides for carry-overs to last only one year, and...
Alan Reid | 496 c46 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge (David Howarth) is right in his criticism of the process tha...
Bob Spink | 496 c61 (Link to this contribution) Has the Justice Secretary considered making that requirement more onerous, by requiring registration...
Jack Straw | 496 c61 (Link to this contribution) We have not, and I think that there would be objections to that. There is the category of resident, ...
Geoffrey Cox | 496 c61 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the Secretary of State could help me. Is it correct that amendment (a) will mean th...
Jack Straw | 496 c61 (Link to this contribution) It is certainly the case that the effect of amendment (a) could be that somebody registered as an ov...
Pete Wishart | 496 c61 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State believe that there is any merit in applying the same principle to electi...
Jack Straw | 496 c61 (Link to this contribution) The same principle will apply to Scottish elections. I do not follow the hon. Gentleman's point, unl...
Pete Wishart | 496 c61-2 (Link to this contribution) Just to clarify for the Secretary of State, the point is quite straightforward: the same principle t...
Jack Straw | 496 c62 (Link to this contribution) That is like suggesting that unless one is domiciled, resident, ordinarily resident and registered t...
Jack Straw | 496 c62 (Link to this contribution) It is not trivialising it—in fact, someone might move, surprisingly enough, south across the border ...
Speaker | 496 c58 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Lords amendment 12, and Government motion ...
Jack Straw | 496 c58-9 (Link to this contribution) Before I deal with the substance of the amendments, Madam Deputy Speaker, I wonder whether I would b...
Jack Straw | 496 c58 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 11.
David Drew | 496 c59 (Link to this contribution) One of the things about which some of us on the Labour Benches feel strongest is the allegation that...
Jack Straw | 496 c59 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. How much time is spent on legislation in this House is a wider issu...
Nigel Evans | 496 c59 (Link to this contribution) I assume that the amendments relate not just to financial contributions but to benefit in kind. I ha...
Jack Straw | 496 c59 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I had no notice of that question, but I shall try to provide the hon. Gentleman wit...
Bob Spink | 496 c59-60 (Link to this contribution) I am sympathetic to the sentiments that the hon. Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew) expressed a moment ago...
Alan Reid | 496 c44 (Link to this contribution) I agree that the Bill is important, but I am concerned about the date of 29 October that the Governm...
Lord Wills | 496 c44 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That the period on the expiry of which proceedings on the Political Parties and Elect...
Lord Wills | 496 c116-7 (Link to this contribution) The Government tabled several amendments to the Bill's provisions on the Electoral Commission's powe...
Nigel Evans | 496 c72 (Link to this contribution) In my halcyon days, I was vice-chairman of the Conservative party, looking after Conservatives abroa...
Jonathan Djanogly | 496 c70-1 (Link to this contribution) If, after what I have said, the hon. Gentleman will not accept that the individuals concerned, not b...
David Howarth | 496 c79 (Link to this contribution) The hon. and learned Gentleman is right to make that point, but it is one with which I fundamentally...
Gordon Prentice | 496 c82 (Link to this contribution) I am going to come to that point. I want to address the issue of consensus. Lord Bach, who led for ...
John Redwood | 496 c92 (Link to this contribution) If the Government are worried about the issue, should they not say that nobody who wishes to be a La...
Jack Straw | 496 c95 (Link to this contribution) I think that someone would soon notice that, and that on the whole people do not operate in that way...
Lord Wills | 496 c49 (Link to this contribution) With all respect to the hon. Gentleman, we have discussed all these issues at very great length. [Ho...
Jack Straw | 496 c60-1 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's argument. Part of what concerned Lord Bach, other colleagues and I...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 496 c108 (Link to this contribution) What a pleasure it is to have a Back Bencher intervene, and we all welcome my hon. Friend to his pla...
John Redwood | 496 c81 (Link to this contribution) How does somebody buy an election? Did Labour buy its victories in the last few elections?
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 496 c98 (Link to this contribution) I intervene merely to reassure the Minister that we have agreement on those matters.

Subjects

Disclosure of information
Data protection
Databases
Devolved matters
Armed forces
Fraud
Finance
Elections
Juries
Donors
Electoral Commission
Electoral register
European Parliament
Domicil
National insurance
Public appointments
Political parties
Proof of identity
Scotland
Registration
Standards
Coordinated online record of electors

Legislation

Political Parties and Elections Bill 2007-08 to 2008-09

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