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Political Parties and Elections Bill

On that very matter, my noble friend has talked about the vastness and scale of the change. Will he consider the position now in the House of Commons, given that this measure has been introduced in the Lords and, as I understand it, we will technically vote on it when the matter is considered at Report? It will go back to the House of Commons. It will not be subject to a Second Reading, a Committee stage or a Report stage; it will simply be considered at one stage in the House of Commons. Yet this is a huge power. From my point of view it is the central part of this legislation. My noble friend talks about scrutiny. There will be no proper scrutiny of this provision because there will not be the opportunity in the House of Commons for Members to discuss this area of the Bill in the detail in which I suggest it should be discussed. What is my noble friend’s response to the suggestion that scrutiny will be limited in that way?