Voter Identification Regulations 2022

I assume the noble Baroness is speaking about railcards, et cetera. We had that debate very clear...

What is the answer?

Can I move on, please? The statutory instruments also sets—

My Lords, my noble friend has asked a reasonable question. Perhaps the Minister could give the Ho...

I have given a reply. The details of why we would not accept young people’s railcards were well d...

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister again but, if everything is as well prepared and clear as sh...

I am aware that he is calling for a delay. I have not spoken to him, and I do not know why he is ...

Oh!

No. The electoral officers, who are independent in local government, say that they know it will b...

Moved by

Baroness Pinnock

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her introduction to this statutory instrument but point out to...

My Lords, I inform the House that if this amendment is agreed to, I will be unable to call the am...

My Lords, from the moment that the Government’s plan for voter ID was first introduced, these Ben...

My Lords, it was very interesting to hear the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, pray in aid the Motio...

My Lords, during the passage of the Bill, I raised the likely impact of the photo identification ...

My Lords, the noble Lord opposite—he is not a Minister, I think he used to be something in the Go...

My Lords, it might be worth saying that I was only commenting on the passage of the Motion that t...

My Lords, I will be brief. Like the noble Baroness, Lady Blower, who was in her place a moment ag...

My Lords, I welcome the presence of the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, for this debate, which will...

My Lords, I spoke in Committee on the Elections Bill on this issue because I was offended then, a...

My Lords, my local politics are in Bradford, where elections are often quite boisterous affairs, ...

I also come from a very mixed community: the city of Leicester. We have very boisterous elections...

I wanted briefly to make one other point. I am holding the National Security Bill, which we will ...

My Lords, the purpose of this regulation is to prevent election fraud, and the Minister quite rig...

My Lords, I doubt this was the intention of the noble Lord, Lord Browne, but he made a powerful c...

My Lords, I speak in favour of the Government’s position, drawing from experience of 35 years of ...

My Lords, I can say the same about what is happening in Europe. In France and, as far as I know, ...

Everyone there has a national ID card.

They can show an ID card, or a passport, or there is a whole list of identification with a photog...

Does the noble Baroness accept that there is a fundamental difference if, as in most of western E...

As far as I know, in England there is a photograph on a driving licence. In France, your driving ...

My Lords, I will pick up on a number of points in relation to comments made during this debate, p...

My Lords, I entirely agree with what my noble friend just said. Almost every word that has been u...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, may well have done his side a disservice, in view of the ...

My Lords, I spent probably the last 30 years organising election monitoring missions around the w...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their thoughtful contributions and say that I do not intend to ...

If it was clear what was in the Conservative manifesto and that voter identification meant photo ...

I do not think my noble friend is in his place, but when I next see him, I will ask him.

Th...

If registration is so important—I agree that it is—why did the Government not start this process ...

If the noble Lord remembers, we had the death of Her Majesty, and that put things back slightly, ...

My Lords, I thank everyone for the very constructive debate we have had. I start by reminding nob...

Tabled by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

My Lords, following the Minister’s clarifications to the questions that I asked, her constructive...