Elections Bill

My Lords, my name is on several of the amendments in this group, and I will therefore speak to so...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 212. It is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Wa...

My Lords, I put my name to Amendment 200 of the noble Lord, Lord Wallace, and I have Amendment 21...

My Lords, I will say a few words about Amendment 212G, which is in my name and that of the noble ...

My Lords, I put my name to the amendment that has just been introduced by the noble Lord, Lord Ro...

My Lords, Amendment 212E, in my name, seeks to draw attention to a principle Parliament has previ...

My Lords, I agree with much of what has been said so far, although I think an obvious connection—...

My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, I remind him of the third link in this, which is that ...

I absolutely agree with that.

My Lords, this has been a hugely interesting and terribly important debate. I am now going to tak...

My Lords, I support the amendments tabled by my noble friend Lady Hayman.

In view of the la...

My Lords, I think that I am now the 11th Peer to tell the Minister that the legislation is not st...

My Lords, this group of amendments brings us to the subject of political donations, and I am grat...

Would that be without any cap on the size of the donation offered? Would the Minister consider th...

I will come to the subject of caps on donations in a moment.

On Amendment 212E, the noble L...

I am listening carefully to the Minister. Going back, say, a decade before the Government started...

My Lords, I hope I have already explained how the Government intend to legislate in the future to...

I understand that the Government have a point of view on this, but it is clearly in contradiction...

I will answer the noble Lord’s point about the Committee on Standards in Public Life in a moment,...

Would the noble Earl acknowledge that trade unions are different? They are highly regulated and t...

My Lords, I am not casting aspersions on trade unions. I was seeking to suggest that making them ...

I have explained why they are a unique case: you have already changed the law without consultatio...

I do not contradict the noble Lord in any respect as to what he said about trade unions. I say ag...

Before the Minister goes on to the next amendment, I asked whether he agreed that there should be...

My Lords, there are two issues there: one is the question that the noble Baroness seems to be ask...

Sorry, perhaps I was not clear. To put it another way, should there be a maximum percentage that ...

That is a highly hypothetical question. I would be happy to give it consideration. For the moment...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response to this large group of amendments. In responding ...

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

205: After Clause 59, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, the hour is late, so I shall be brief in introducing my amendments in this group. I hav...

My Lords, in this overfull House at this late hour, I will be extremely brief. I note that the no...

My Lords, these amendments seek to require the Government to commit to a timetable for wholesale ...

The Minister will know that I am quite astute at reading impact assessments. I have also read the...

I do not know, but what I can say is that it is a continuing process, as I have said. We will mon...

Before the Minister completes her remarks, her argument is that Amendment 206 is not necessary be...

No, I did not say that we were minded to consolidate at all. I go back to what I said: the Govern...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response. However, there seems to be a difference of opini...

Moved by

Lord Collins of Highbury

207: After Clause 59, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, I will be very brief. This is a probing amendment with which we are seeking to better u...

I thank the noble Lord for being very brief, and I will try to be nearly as brief. I am sure that...

In the light of those comments, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.