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Proceeding contribution from Baroness Ashton of Upholland (Labour) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 28 February 2006. It occurred during Debate on bill and Committee proceeding on Electoral Administration Bill.


Electoral Administration Bill

I am grateful to the noble Lord. To pick up his earlier point briefly, we debated the fact that, neither of us having legal training, what looks to us like odd language is—I am assured, having taken it back—the correct legal language. It is not so much what the Bill says, because that needs to be legally watertight, but I agree with the noble Lord that it is important that when we talk to people outside, we make it as clear as possible. We must think carefully about that, for the reasons the noble Lord has rightly mentioned. There is no change in CORE about who can access information. Things that would not be available to anybody else will still not be available to anybody else. The critical thing is that what we collect in one pot is available to the people that the 400-plus pots are available to, and no additional people. That should reassure the noble Lord.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
679 c88-9GC 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
Subjects
Contracts Data protection Databases Administration Fraud Finance Elections Electorate ICT Electoral Commission Electoral register Registration Electoral registration officers Coordinated online record of electors
Legislation
Electoral Administration Bill 2005-06
Link
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