Elections Bill

My Lords, Amendment 85 in this group would require the Secretary of State to publish any secondar...

I thank the Minister for his response and I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Hayward

88: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—

“Evi...

My Lords, this is a small group of technical amendments, and I will speak to Amendments 88 and 91...

My Lords, I would like to comment on Amendments 88 and 89 because for me—and I have read quite a ...

My Lords, these amendments tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Hayward, the bulk of which are new clau...

My Lords, the amendments proposed by my noble friend Lord Hayward seek to make a number of change...

I thank my noble friend for his positive replies to a number of the amendments, and I apologise f...

Moved by

Lord Collins of Highbury

92A: Schedule 3, page 99, line 2, leave out “3” and...

I will move this amendment on behalf of my noble friend Lady Hayman of Ullock. At the outset I wa...

My Lords, I wish to speak to the amendments in my name in this group, namely Amendments 96A, 96B,...

My Lords, these amendments investigate some of the safeguards for postal ballots introduced in th...

I thank the Minister for giving way. I understand the logic he is setting out. Do the Government ...

My Lords, had the noble Lord not made a very legitimate intervention, I would have read the next ...

I thank the Minister for his explanation. In light of those comments, I beg leave to withdraw the...

Moved by

Lord Collins of Highbury

93: Clause 4, page 2, line 12, after “person” inser...

My Lords, I stress that this is a series of probing amendments to try to better understand the so...

My Lords, these probing amendments seek to test the defence for political campaigners set out in ...

I thank the Minister for her explanation. In preparing for this particular debate, I looked at th...

I think that all of us campaigners have been asked the same question many times on the doorstep.<...

I thank the Minister for her response and, in light of her comments, beg leave to withdraw the am...

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

96E: Clause 6, page 9, line 7, at end insert—

My Lords, I have tabled Amendments 96E to 96J. Similar to the last group, these are probing amend...

My Lords, I support the amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman. These Benches ...

My Lords, I have a question more out of ignorance than expertise. I am old enough to have gone ro...

My Lords, in answer to that question from the noble Lord, Lord Wallace, keeping the numbers at fo...

I thank the Minister for her comprehensive reply. I was particularly pleased to hear that disable...

Moved by

Lord Khan of Burnley

97: Clause 7, page 9, line 13, after “communicate” inse...

My Lords, the amendments in this group all relate to the secrecy of the ballot. Amendment 97 from...

My Lords, earlier this evening the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, made reference to the original secret...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hayward. As an aside on families and se...

My Lords, the figures that the noble Lord gave will of course be of concern to the Committee and ...

My Lords, as has been said, these amendments are to Clause 7, which concerns the important issue ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response and the noble Lords, Lord Hayward and Lord Scrive...

Moved by

Lord True

98: Clause 7, page 9, leave out lines 21 to 24

Member’s expl...

Moved by

Lord True

101: Clause 7, page 9, line 33, leave out “any of paragraphs (a), ...

Moved by

Lord True

106: Clause 8, page 10, leave out line 30 and insert—

“(1) A...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 106A in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Wallac...

Amendment 106ZA.

Well spotted. The amendments are the wrong way round on Today’s Lists—apologies. The Marshalled L...

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

106ZA: Clause 8, page 11, line 10, after “person” ...

I shall move this amendment very swiftly because I was intending to spend most of this speech dis...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 106A. As I have already said to the Minister, this is very mu...

My Lords, I will follow on from the noble Lord, Lord Wallace, on undue influence. I think that a ...

My Lords, the underlying issue here clearly might lead to concern in certain circumstances, but t...

I want to follow on from the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, because his concerns were also mine. I am n...

I shall give my noble friend an American example, which has been debated in the United States ver...

I will elaborate on the noble Lord’s point. There is a difference here, in the ordinary reading o...

This is unexpectedly lively, but the focus really is on new sub-paragraph (3)(e). I think most of...

My Lords, in Christian teaching, the alpha comes before omega, so I was a bit puzzled, like other...

My Lords, I was not absolutely clear from what the Minister said whether the phrase “undue spirit...

Yes, I had better write at this hour. I had it somewhere, but I have lost it in the folder. I wil...

My Lords, I think it is the sense of quite a few of us that it might be wiser to remove the phras...

My Lords, it has been a particularly interesting debate on the definition of spirituality and so ...

Moved by

Lord True

107: Clause 8, page 11, line 23, at end insert—

“(7) This se...

Moved by

Lord True

110: Schedule 5, page 109, leave out lines 23 to 32

Member’s...

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

118A: Clause 9, page 11, line 29, leave out paragr...

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 118A on behalf of the noble Lord, Lord Holmes of Richmond, who ...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 122A, on an issue that I do not think has received sufficient...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for speaking on behalf of my noble friend Lord Holmes of Ric...

As the Minister said, we had an extensive debate on this at our previous Committee sitting, so I ...