Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

Debate on bills on Monday, 14 February 2011, in the House of Lords.

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill. Lords third reading. Clause 5 (Press comment etc not subject to spending controls) amendment debated and negatived on division (153 to 236). Clause 7 (Intepretation) amendment agreed. Clause 11 (Number and distribution of seats) amendments debated and agreed. Bill passed and returned to the Commons with amendments.

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

725 c507-24

Session

2010-12

Legislative stage

Third reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill. As amended on report (HL)
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c524 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Phillips for the amendment and I join in the general approbat...

Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 725 c524 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my noble friend. Amendment 5 agreed. Bill passed and returned to the Commons with...

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Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 725 c522-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the amendment responds to the indication given on Report by the noble and learned Lord, Lo...

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 725 c522 (Link to this contribution) 4: Clause 11, page 13, line 38, leave out ““and London boroughs and their wards”” and insert ““Londo...

Lord Pannick | 725 c522 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move. Amendment 3 agreed. Amendment 4 Moved by

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c521-2 (Link to this contribution) As the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, indicated, this is a consequential tidying-up amendment following t...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c524 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we support the amendment and we supported it previously. The noble Lord invited our apprec...

Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 725 c523-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that I can move this amendment even more briefly than I did in Committee and on Rep...

Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 725 c523 (Link to this contribution) 5: Schedule 1, page 23, line 13, at end insert— ““( ) The Chief Counting Officer must take whatever ...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c523 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as my noble friend Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville has explained, the amendment adds the ...

Lord Rooker | 725 c521 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful for that response from the Minister. I do not mind whether or not spoiled vo...

Lord Pannick | 725 c521 (Link to this contribution) 3: Clause 11, page 11, line 1, after ““4(2),”” insert ““6,””

Lord Pannick | 725 c521 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the amendment is entirely consequential on the amendment to Clause 11 that was carried on ...

Lord Skelmersdale | 725 c518 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the House should remind itself that we are at Third Reading. The amendment has not yet bee...

Lord Skelmersdale | 725 c518 (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately, there is a printing mistake in paragraph (a), which should at the end read, "““as def...

Lord Rooker | 725 c518 (Link to this contribution) I was about to say, ““I so move””.

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c519-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, seeks to clarify two points in relation to t...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c518-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is an important point. I completely agree with my noble friend Lord Rooker on the mea...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c520-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I cannot indicate what checks are likely to be made. It is obviously easier to check if th...

Lord Maxton | 725 c520 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I accept the point about people who have registered more than once in separate constituenc...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c510-1 (Link to this contribution) I have two points in response. Speaking as a member of the Administration, I am in no position to of...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 725 c510 (Link to this contribution) I have an important question for the Minister as to what happens during the broadcast. He referred t...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c507-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for noble Lords who are interested in this amendment, perhaps I may start again. The first...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c507 (Link to this contribution) 1: Clause 5, page 4, line 48, at end insert— ““( ) Party election broadcasts during the referendum p...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c507 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, today's date was fixed without consultation. Had we been consulted, we would have said tha...

Lord McNally | 725 c507 (Link to this contribution) That the Bill be now read a third time. That the Bill be now read a third time.

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 725 c509-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, has indicated, this matter has b...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c509 (Link to this contribution) I accept the noble Lord’s implied, or indeed express, criticism. My wording is not good and that is ...

Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 725 c509 (Link to this contribution) In the light of the wording of his amendment—which is a bit strange, if I may say so, particularly t...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c509 (Link to this contribution) I apologise: at Third Reading today. It is an important issue, and I wait with interest to hear what...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c511-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord for his speech, but there is a fundamental problem with ...

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 725 c518 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thought I heard my noble friend be told by the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, that not voting w...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 725 c512 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Clerk, brutally, is shaking his head. I would be willing to adopt the noble and learne...

Lord Lloyd of Berwick | 725 c512 (Link to this contribution) In the event that the amendment is successful, it seems an awful pity that we should use this langua...

Baroness Hayman | 725 c512 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are at Third Reading and the noble and learned Lord has sought to test the opinion of t...

Lord Rooker | 725 c515-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall not detain the House too long. I think that it was generally accepted, after the v...

Lord Rooker | 725 c515 (Link to this contribution) 2: Clause 7, page 6, line 41, at end insert— ““( ) In section 1(2)— (a) ““the electorate”” is define...

Lord Rooker | 725 c517-8 (Link to this contribution) It is certainly wrong about it being fatal; I will argue that until the cows come home. The Electora...

Lord Campbell of Alloway | 725 c512 (Link to this contribution) My Lords—

Lord Tyler | 725 c517 (Link to this contribution) Could the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, clarify one point? The Electoral Commission points out that there...

Subjects

Alternative vote

Elections

Greater London

Referendums

Voting behaviour

Party political broadcasts

Legislation

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill 2010-12

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