Political Parties and Elections Bill

He could say that. If someone is served with a disclosure notice and they are the person involved, whether they are in the Caribbean or Outer Mongolia I hope they would respond to the request as a matter of grave importance and hot foot it back to London, or wherever it is that the documents are, in order to comply with an important investigation by the Electoral Commission. I am sure that most people would want to do that. Whether it is 20 days or 56 days, my point is simply that there ought to be some limit. The technique often used in these kinds of debates is familiar and I understand it: it is to reduce the issue to absurdity and to say, "In these extreme circumstances, would it not be silly if so and so happened?". In these circumstances, would it not be silly if someone was not required to comply with the disclosure notice for a year, two years or three years? The paragraph states that it should be within a period of time.