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Political Parties and Elections Bill

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her intervention. Yes, we are making heavy weather of this, but because we are at the opening of the Committee stage, it is appropriate to set the tone and to put down markers of concern to which we may return as we go through the Bill. As my noble friend Lord Marland pointed out, we could be charged with granting people blanket powers. The noble Baroness referred to the fact that the powers—those not listed in Schedule 1—would run to several pages. We have lots of pages in the Bill—there is no shortage—and I was merely inviting the Minister to respond with some examples of the specific steps that might be taken. Will he give examples of those which are appropriate but not necessarily contained in Schedule 1?