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Electoral Commission

Estimates day on Monday, 3 July 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Peter Viggers. The answering member was Bridget Prentice.
Electoral Commission: estimates 2006-07. Third estimates day (part 2). Resolved on question.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
448 c584-623 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Procedure
Supply estimates
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
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
Proceeding contributions
Lord Horam | 448 c598-9 (Link to this contribution) In today’s estimates debate, it is appropriate to consider whether the Electoral Commission is givin...
Alan Whitehead | 448 c597-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point about how we regulate for diversity. I was emphasising the f...

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Lord Tyrie | 448 c602 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Lady aware of the huge amount of research showing that there is enormous—in some respect...
Simon Hughes | 448 c613 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (Danny Alexander), who canno...
Lord Tyrie | 448 c605-6 (Link to this contribution) I should like to think carefully about that before agreeing with my hon. Friend. I am keen to speak ...
Lord Tyrie | 448 c605 (Link to this contribution) I am not complacent about it, but I am not as gripped by it as some Labour Members. Voter participat...
Lord Tyrie | 448 c603-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Gosport (Peter Viggers), who gave an outstanding speech...
Angus Robertson | 448 c613 (Link to this contribution) There would be nothing wrong with that if the party had the honesty to add the party name underneath...
Angus Robertson | 448 c614 (Link to this contribution) I sincerely hope that the Electoral Commission will consider the issue of by-elections and the new b...
Simon Hughes | 448 c614 (Link to this contribution) Some of the things that the hon. Member for Moray (Angus Robertson) said were relatively controversi...
Angus Robertson | 448 c613 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman obviously has not been there, because he clearly does not know what he is talking...
Oliver Heald | 448 c587 (Link to this contribution) Is it not fair to say that the Electoral Commission pointed out such duplication and was very happy ...
Peter Viggers | 448 c587 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, I confirm that the Electoral Commission was entirely happy about the change.
Peter Viggers | 448 c586 (Link to this contribution) If the Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, the hon. Member for Lewisham, East (Brid...
Peter Viggers | 448 c587 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made his point, but I would prefer to leave that issue to the Minister, who c...
Andrew Love | 448 c586 (Link to this contribution) Part of the problem with the boundary commissions is that some of the seven criteria under which the...
Peter Viggers | 448 c587 (Link to this contribution) I must press on at this point. I think that I have made the point that the 2000 Act substantially e...
Anthony Steen | 448 c592 (Link to this contribution) As I understand it, my hon. Friend is saying that the commission’s job with regard to local authorit...
Speaker | 448 c593 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the next speaker, I should say that the division of time between the two debate...
Baroness Keeley | 448 c601-2 (Link to this contribution) No. The Committee on Standards in Public Life is conducting an inquiry into the Electoral Commissio...
Anthony Steen | 448 c599 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that 351 seats in this House cover approximately 61,000 electors, despite th...
Baroness Keeley | 448 c600-1 (Link to this contribution) As we know, the Electoral Commission is responsible for overseeing several aspects of electoral law,...
Angus Robertson | 448 c612-3 (Link to this contribution) Like others, I would like to concentrate in the short time available on something that has not yet b...
David Kidney | 448 c606-9 (Link to this contribution) After the downbeat assessment of the hon. Member for Chichester (Mr. Tyrie), I am happy to follow wi...
Lord Beith | 448 c609-11 (Link to this contribution) I have served on the Speaker’s Committee almost continuously since it was created. I now do so ex of...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 448 c605 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that lower turnouts are a function of social change? Voters may take a con...
Baroness Keeley | 448 c605 (Link to this contribution) I find it surprising that the hon. Gentleman is so exercised by equal numbers for the boundary commi...
Baroness Keeley | 448 c602-3 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not agree. I have been heavily involved in a single-issue organisation—Amnesty Internationa...
Oliver Heald | 448 c613 (Link to this contribution) What the heck is wrong with us describing an excellent candidate as a bonnie fighter?
Kelvin Hopkins | 448 c613-4 (Link to this contribution) I sympathise very much with the hon. Gentleman’s complaints. He mentioned American campaigning techn...
Simon Hughes | 448 c614-7 (Link to this contribution) No, by all parties, if the papers can be used to support the party in any way. We could have that di...
Angus Robertson | 448 c613 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman denying that the candidate lived in the same constituency as the Liberal Democ...
Simon Hughes | 448 c613 (Link to this contribution) I am just saying that the village in question is known as being in Aberdeen.
Peter Viggers | 448 c622 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker. On behalf of the Speaker’s Committee, I thank all t...
Bridget Prentice | 448 c621-2 (Link to this contribution) No, because I must leave time for the hon. Member for Gosport to speak at the end of the debate. Sa...
Oliver Heald | 448 c617-9 (Link to this contribution) I did not agree with that. However, some themes have come out of the debate—for example, that the El...
Bridget Prentice | 448 c619-21 (Link to this contribution) This has been an excellent debate, with a great deal of consensus across the House. I will more or l...
Kelvin Hopkins | 448 c617 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Simon Hughes | 448 c617 (Link to this contribution) No. I must finish in a few seconds. I hope that the Electoral Commission will carry out an urgent p...
Peter Viggers | 448 c584 (Link to this contribution) This is the first occasion on which the House has ever had a general debate on the work of the Elect...
Anthony Steen | 448 c585 (Link to this contribution) I am having some difficulty understanding section 16 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referen...
Anthony Steen | 448 c586 (Link to this contribution) I am great supporter of the Electoral Commission’s work—it has done a wonderful job—but does my hon....
Peter Viggers | 448 c585-6 (Link to this contribution) The committee is not delaying that; the Government have given power to enable the transfer to take p...
John Bercow | 448 c587 (Link to this contribution) Recently, entirely of my own volition, I provided to the Electoral Commission details of sponsorship...
Alan Whitehead | 448 c594-7 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome the debate. I share the view of the hon. Member for Gosport (Peter Viggers) that it ...
David Drew | 448 c597 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that some of us face particular difficulties inasmuch as, as Labour/Co-op...
Simon Hughes | 448 c592 (Link to this contribution) On the local government boundary issue and the transfer of functions to the Electoral Commission, is...
Peter Viggers | 448 c588-92 (Link to this contribution) I will be dealing with exactly that point in a few moments if the hon. Gentleman will contain himsel...
Peter Viggers | 448 c592 (Link to this contribution) My best answer to that is that the Speaker’s Committee takes the view that the Electoral Commission ...
Peter Viggers | 448 c592-3 (Link to this contribution) It is for the Government, and not the Speaker’s Committee, to take the initiative on this issue, so ...
Lord Horam | 448 c599-600 (Link to this contribution) My view is that votes should have equal weight, wherever they are in the country. That is the princi...
Simon Hughes | 448 c587 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Peter Viggers | 448 c587 (Link to this contribution) It is not often that an hon. Member can give total reassurance to a colleague, but I assure my hon. ...
David Leslie Taylor | 448 c588 (Link to this contribution) I understand that in the evidence given to the Select Committee on Constitutional Affairs, the budge...
Baroness Keeley | 448 c601 (Link to this contribution) No. We have spoken about these matters a great deal during our consideration of the Bill. When I sp...
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Elections
Electoral Commission
Electoral register
Law
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