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Electoral Administration Bill

Debate on bills on Wednesday, 28 June 2006, in the House of Commons.
Electoral Administration Bill. Consideration of Lords amendments. Lords amendment 8B disagreed to on division (290 to 204). Motion that a Committee be appointed to draw up a Reason to be assigned to the Lords for disagreeing to their amendment agreed to. Reason reported and agreed to. Message to the Lords to communicate Reason with the Bill and amendments.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
448 c293-312 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Legislative stage
Lords amendments
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Electoral Administration Bill. Lords non-insistence and amendment in lieu. (vote).
Tuesday, 20 June 2006
Bills
House of Commons
Electoral registration. Government response to the first joint report of session 2004/05 from the Constitutional Affairs and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Select Committees (Constitutional Affairs Committee sixth report and Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Committee sixth report). (HC 243).
Thursday, 21 July 2005
Command papers
House of Commons
Electoral Commission / administration. Minutes of evidence 15 November 2005. (Bound with HC 640-i)
Tuesday, 15 November 2005
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
Electoral Commission / administration. Minutes of evidence 2 November 2005. (Bound with HC 640-ii)
Wednesday, 2 November 2005
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons

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Party funding. Minutes of evidence 19 April 2006. (Printed in HC 163 2006-07)
Wednesday, 19 April 2006
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Simon Hughes | 448 c296 (Link to this contribution) If the Bill were to be passed in the near future—I share the Minister’s wish that it is—but with the...
Bridget Prentice | 448 c296 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I can give that confirmation. As I mentioned in reference to the postal vote iden...

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Bridget Prentice | 448 c297 (Link to this contribution) I am usually reluctant to intervene on the hon. Gentleman in his opening remarks, but that is the se...
Oliver Heald | 448 c297 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate Baroness Hanham on her success in prevailing again in the other place. The background...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 448 c298 (Link to this contribution) What about the possible situation of merchant seamen in my constituency, who might be away for voyag...
Bob Spink | 448 c298 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that, in any case, in such circumstances an electoral registration office...
Oliver Heald | 448 c298 (Link to this contribution) The people whom the hon. Gentleman represents would register to vote in October, I imagine, as other...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 448 c299 (Link to this contribution) Just for the record, we are with the Government on the amendment.
Oliver Heald | 448 c298-9 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I was not sure whether the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr. MacNeil) was suggesting th...
Robert Syms | 448 c294 (Link to this contribution) We all know that sometimes contests are tight and that there can occasionally be grudge contests, su...
Bridget Prentice | 448 c296 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes a valid point. I think we should allow for a variety of elections to ...
Oliver Heald | 448 c295 (Link to this contribution) The Minister knows that I asked to see the responses to the Government’s consultation paper, ““Elect...
Bridget Prentice | 448 c294-5 (Link to this contribution) I am aware of that academic’s evidence to the Committee. EROs with whom I have held discussions do n...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 448 c294 (Link to this contribution) Will the Government take responsibility for a comprehensive canvass, given Dr. Michael Pinto-Duschin...
Bridget Prentice | 448 c294 (Link to this contribution) I understand the point that the hon. Gentleman makes and the mischief that could be created if that ...
Greg Knight | 448 c296 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give the House a little more information about the review? Does she envisage it ta...
Bridget Prentice | 448 c295-6 (Link to this contribution) As I said, the documents are now available. It can take time to give due weight and to analyse in de...
Oliver Heald | 448 c295 (Link to this contribution) The Minister published a summary of the responses in October, but I wanted to see the actual respons...
Bridget Prentice | 448 c295 (Link to this contribution) I am not entirely sure of the relevance of that question to this part of my remarks. It takes some t...
Bob Spink | 448 c303 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill; it contains some worthy measures. I congratulate the Minister on the way in whic...
Robert Syms | 448 c303 (Link to this contribution) Excellent. The Lords have considered the issue and given us an opportunity: they have given the Gov...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 448 c304 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that that is probably a strong argument for requiring the Government t...
Andrew Love | 448 c304 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the House for the fact that I was unable to be here at the beginning of the debate; u...
Andrew Love | 448 c305 (Link to this contribution) I accept that there were individuals in those categories who were taken off the register. However, I...
David Leslie Taylor | 448 c305 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his generosity in giving way. Is he aware of any academic resear...
Andrew Love | 448 c304 (Link to this contribution) I accept what the hon. Gentleman says, and I shall come to the question of an annual canvass. I shal...
David Leslie Taylor | 448 c305 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure of the provenance of the figure of 4 million for unregistered voters, but does my hon....
Andrew Love | 448 c305 (Link to this contribution) That is a big topic, and you would call me to order, Madam Deputy Speaker, if I went off at a tangen...
Simon Hughes | 448 c305 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that I sympathise with the aim of ensuring that more people are put on the ...
Oliver Heald | 448 c301 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman acknowledges that I still think that national insurance numbers wo...
Simon Hughes | 448 c299-300 (Link to this contribution) This debate comes round again. Some of us are serving on a Joint Committee of both Houses that is ex...
Oliver Heald | 448 c299 (Link to this contribution) Is not that marvellous? One Member from another party supports the Minister. She must be proud—she c...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 448 c303 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar, I say to the House that if the amendment affected only ...
Greg Knight | 448 c303 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has touched on the view of the SNP. Is it not worth saying to the Member who represen...
Robert Syms | 448 c303 (Link to this contribution) I do not intend to go down that particular track, Madam Deputy Speaker.
Simon Hughes | 448 c302 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and indeed there are a few people who cannot write, and who normally put a cross or make...
Robert Syms | 448 c302-3 (Link to this contribution) We have made a good deal of progress, and over the last few months there have been many things that ...
Simon Hughes | 448 c301 (Link to this contribution) Of course. I was not trying to misrepresent the position of the hon. Gentleman or his party. However...
Oliver Heald | 448 c301 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree with the hon. Gentleman about the patronising nature of those comments, but he wou...
Andrew Love | 448 c306 (Link to this contribution) Research may well have been carried out, but I am more interested in the practical realities of the ...
Andrew Love | 448 c307 (Link to this contribution) It is already a requirement that people should return an electoral registration form. Interestingly,...
Lord Wills | 448 c307 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend state the circumstances in which compulsory registration would be appropriate?
Andrew Love | 448 c306-7 (Link to this contribution) That is certainly not the impression that I have been given. I support the thrust of the remarks by ...
Oliver Heald | 448 c306 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr. MacNeil) has left, because we have bee...
Oliver Heald | 448 c307 (Link to this contribution) Is not the problem in this country, as opposed to what happens in Australia, that most experts think...
Andrew Love | 448 c307-8 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether I accept that so many people are on the register who should not be, although t...
Speaker | 448 c307 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the hon. Gentleman, so that he does not stray too far, that we are looking at the Lo...
Andrew Love | 448 c307 (Link to this contribution) I take the point, Madam Deputy Speaker. I apologise for drifting off into that important subject, be...
Bridget Prentice | 448 c308 (Link to this contribution) I reiterate that I hope that the House will oppose the Lords in the said amendment. It being one ho...
Bridget Prentice | 448 c294 (Link to this contribution) I see no reason why that should not be the case. If the ERO receives the information in time, review...
Bridget Prentice | 448 c293 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in the said amendment. The Government’s app...
Simon Hughes | 448 c294 (Link to this contribution) This is an important issue. Will the Minister tell the House whether an objection could be seen thro...
Oliver Heald | 448 c297-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is right to say that there have been some improvements and there are some improvements...
Subjects
Administration
Fraud
Elections
Electoral register
Personation
Proof of identity
Registration
Legislation
Electoral Administration Bill 2005-06
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