Elections Bill

I assure the noble Baroness that it is on the Marshalled List.

Amendment A1

Moved by

Baroness Meacher

A1: Clause 14, page 21, leave out lines 6 and 7

My Lords, I beg to move.

Now we have a debate, which the Minister can answer.

I thank noble Lords and join in the general confusion about where we are up to. I speak in favour...

My Lords, when the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, came into the Chamber, I do not think that she w...

My Lords, this is the most extraordinary debate that I have ever taken part in, with the noble Ba...

My Lords, this is an astonishing Bill. I understand why there was confusion at the start; I do no...

Abomination.

Thank you; I am grateful that I have some friends around here who are far more literate than I am...

My Lords, I apologise that I cannot be here for the whole of today. When I spoke at Second Readin...

When I listed the people and groups who were going to oppose the Bill, I should have included the...

It is a touching gesture. Anybody who considers himself or herself a parliamentarian should be op...

May I ask my noble friend before he sits down just to clarify his comments about the amendments f...

Yes, that is fine. I think there is even a case for deleting these clauses in Committee.

My Lords, I was not intending to speak on this part but I feel very queasy about the way a number...

Will the noble Baroness give way?

Go on, defend it. The noble Baroness used to be in the Communist Party.

Very good, well done everyone, carry on.

The noble Baroness said that we had a functioning electoral system before we had the Electoral Co...

I appreciate that I am surrounded by Labour noble Lords who object to what I am saying. One of th...

My Lords, I wonder whether noble Lords are fully aware that this is Committee and not Second Read...

My Lords, I want to make a Committee point, if I may. Even though I agree with the general statem...

My Lords, I put my name to the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire,...

My Lords, the processes of your Lordships’ House are enclosed in layers of impenetrable language,...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, for tabling these amendments and setting an e...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Scriven, and we agree with everything h...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness opposite for her kind remarks at the outset, and make clear ...

I apologise. Did the Minister just say that the amendments have nothing to do with Clause 14? The...

No, I said that what was before the House was not a clause stand part debate. I will address the ...

My Lords, I am doing my best, on the basis of only 20 years’ experience in this House, to follow ...

No, I am not saying that in the slightest. I will address the amendments of the noble Baroness, L...

Following on from my noble friend, I have only been in this House for 16 years, so I am a relativ...

No, and the noble Lord, for whom I have the greatest affection, is never slow in coming forward i...

I look forward to the evidence being put forward about postal vote fraud. I have certainly not se...

Okay, I take that as a yes: that the noble Lord would like to reject the whole Bill. I will be in...

I slightly object to that, because the Minister is extending a response to one point to a general...

I am grateful for that, and I do know that that is the Labour Party position. I was pointing out ...

I agree completely with what my noble friend has just said. I was saying that there are different...

I anticipate that we will discuss all those things. I intend, if nature allows, to be present for...

I point out to the Minister that he has just spent 10 minutes doing exactly what he has told nobl...

I would have done so slightly quicker if the noble Lord had not intervened.

The suggestion ...

The Minister did not address my concerns around consultation on the document. Will he come back o...

My Lords, we will come to that document later. The specific recommendations taken up in these pro...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response to this excellent debate. I did table these amend...

Moved by

Lord True

1: Clause 14, page 21, line 13, at end insert—

“(3A) The sta...

My Lords, I apologise to the Committee at the outset for the large number of amendments in this g...

My Lords, on this occasion, I have a lot of sympathy with the Minister. As I understand it, these...

My Lords, I wish to speak to those amendments in this group which deal with the consequences of t...

My Lords, I have one question of clarification to ask my noble friend. During his introduction, h...

My Lords, I will briefly make a point about these proceedings. As I understood it, when we debate...

My Lords, I will speak very briefly to this amendment. I seem to have used my time allocation ear...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his introduction. Clearly, these amendments are technical and ...

My Lords, I thank all those who have spoken in the debate. Perhaps I am allowed occasionally to s...

I am sorry if I did not make this clear, but I was asking a question about the future structure o...

My Lords, I have not had advice from the Box on this, and that is always a dangerous place for a ...

My Lords, I am sorry to come back to something the Minister said just before the intervention of ...

I think I did set the record straight on the procedure. According to the principle of amity—I hav...

I do not want to take up the Committee’s time on this. Perhaps we could have an exchange of lette...

May I take up the point that the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey, raised earlier? We are now about to agr...

My Lords, the groupings put before your Lordships’ House are agreed through the usual channels. I...

Moved by

Lord True

2: Clause 14, page 21, line 15, at end insert—

“(5) For the ...

My Lords, I beg to move that the House do now resume, and in doing so, I suggest that we do not r...

My Lords, we have only done two of these amendments.

As my noble friend the Minister quietly reminds me, the amendments will be moved in their place o...