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Political Parties and Elections Bill

I briefly welcome the amendments, as they obviously address significant loopholes in the 2000 legislation that we did not spot at the time. We particularly welcome the fact that they address the issue of loans as they were not addressed in 2000, which was put right eventually in 2006. The noble Lord referred to the definition of a members association. Many of them we will understand, and he underlined several examples. Would that cover a leadership or deputy leadership campaign team? We know rather notably that there were controversies over the last deputy leadership campaign for the Labour Party. Would such a campaign team be a members association and are we now therefore closing the loophole that meant that there were problems in that election? The commission spotted that there were clear problems, but nobody could be held responsible.