Electoral Registration and Administration Bill

My Lords, I will make a couple of comments on the amendment. I am a bit wary of it. I rather shar...

My Lords, this is always an interesting one; it feels so natural that it must be easier to vote o...

My Lords, first, I thank my noble friend for moving this amendment, because it has given us an op...

My Lords, these short debates about weekend voting are always frustrating for me. People always s...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

52A: Clause 15, page 9, line 12, at end inse...

My Lords, I move this amendment standing in the name of my noble and learned friend Lord Falconer...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for bringing forward this amendment. As I understand it, the...

I thank the Minister for that. Certainly, we do not want to add complexity. As someone who has go...

Moved by

Lord Pannick

53: After Clause 17, insert the following new Clause—

“Vo...

My Lords, this amendment is tabled in the name of the chairman of your Lordships’ Constitution Co...

My Lords, as always, the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, has presented the amendment with enormous clar...

My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend. We strongly support the amendment. The fact that...

My Lords, it is rather encouraging at this time of night if two Peers rise at the same time. I wa...

My Lords, I shall make a few comments on the amendment, to which I added my name. As the noble Lo...

My Lords, it is very hard to imagine that the Government will say anything but yes to the amendme...

My Lords, I thought that I had had enough excitement for today, but this is an interesting debate...

The Minister is spending quite a lot of time on the word “queues”. It would be helpful, not least...

The noble Baroness makes an interesting suggestion. It is rather like the doorkeepers here keepin...

I am grateful to my noble friend for what he has just said because it showed an openness of mind ...

My Lords, before the Minister replies, I would like to add one sentence: one of the legal adviser...

I do not know; I am not a parliamentary draftsman, but I would hesitate to define a queue that st...

I am very interested in the issues for which the Minister is identifying the problems and uninten...

I was not aware that I was in a hole, but I may be. I do not know what the noble Lord is referrin...

Yes.

There is no experience there to suggest that there is any problem; the numbers involved are very ...

I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this interesting debate, not least to th...

Moved by

Lord Norton of Louth

55: After Clause 21, insert the following new Clause—