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Representation of the People (Amendment) Regulations 2008

As the noble Lord, Lord Henley, said, we all have experience of electoral registers and, indeed, of disposing of skips full of electoral registers. I am not sure whether the Minister was present at the ceremonial burning of the electoral registers following the Henley by-election. The regulations have one very interesting feature. In previous legislation, in 2007, the fee for registers was £20 in data form and £10 in printed form. We seem to have reversed that. It is now £2 in printed form and £1 in data form. The data form is far more useful and I suspect that the printed forms will disappear. It is a curious anomaly which the Minister might like to explain.