Electoral Administration Bill

My Lords, I support these amendments on which the noble Lord, Lord Garden, and my noble friend Lady Hanham have spoken eloquently. As per my noble friend, this really is an important issue. As the noble Lord, Lord Garden, said, after the fiasco of the last election—where almost 200,000 service men and women were denied the chance to vote—the Prime Minister promised to rectify an obviously failing system. Yet we still await any progress on that. That is a betrayal of our Armed Forces and I hope that the Minister will give a clear assurance that the Government really are taking this point seriously.