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Scottish Elections 2007

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

465 c165-82 

Session

2006-07

Department

Scotland Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP 07/2178
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
Deposited papers
House of Commons

Gould Report
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Written statements
House of Commons

Scottish Parliament: Elections
Thursday, 13 December 2007
Written statements
House of Lords

Scottish Parliament (Elections)
Thursday, 13 December 2007
Written statements
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c170 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend chairs the Scottish Affairs Committee and has suggested that the Committee consider t...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c169 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for recognising the appropriate qualifications that Mr Gould brought to t...

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David Mundell | 465 c167-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement, and for the advance copy that he let me have. Alth...

Speaker | 465 c169 (Link to this contribution) Order. Let the Secretary of State speak. ... Order. I hope, Mr. Swayne, that you will not spend the ...

Alistair Carmichael | 465 c170-1 (Link to this contribution) I also thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. Ron Gould is to be congratul...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c171-2 (Link to this contribution) I refute entirely the suggestion that my right hon. Friend the former Secretary of State for Scotlan...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c165-7 (Link to this contribution) I would like to welcome the publication of the Electoral Commission report into the conduct of the M...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c175 (Link to this contribution) When Members who have not read the report in full—they appear to be here in substantial numbers—get ...

Sandra Osborne | 465 c175 (Link to this contribution) Many of my constituents felt extremely short-changed by the whole election process, so I welcome the...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c175 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is wrong on two counts. I am not a senior counsel, so I am not a silk. And second...

Tony Baldry | 465 c175 (Link to this contribution) A sensible silk would start his plea in mitigation with an apology, but we have not had a scintilla ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c176 (Link to this contribution) In my statement in response to the report, I made it clear that we do not anticipate using electroni...

Brian H Donohoe | 465 c175-6 (Link to this contribution) Although there is much to be commended in the report's conclusions, one area is not highlighted as I...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c176 (Link to this contribution) I can immediately contrast the right hon. Gentleman's constructive contribution with that of his Fro...

Charles Kennedy | 465 c176 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State indicated that on the back of this report he will have a period of reflection...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c174-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady brings a degree of personal knowledge of such conflicts to the question, as at one sta...

Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 465 c174 (Link to this contribution) Some of us in this House believe that the position of Secretary of State for Scotland is an importan...

David Marshall | 465 c173 (Link to this contribution) In the local government elections, most of the spoiled votes were due to people marking their ballot...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c172-3 (Link to this contribution) I entirely refute the claim that my right hon. Friend has been caught with his hand in the till. Tha...

Andrew MacKay | 465 c172 (Link to this contribution) Just where is the Secretary of State's predecessor this afternoon? Why is he not at the Dispatch Box...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c172 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's contribution, and I can answer yes to all the questions that he pos...

Lord McFall of Alcluith | 465 c174 (Link to this contribution) As one who was on the ground that day, I should say that we all let our constituents down, because t...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c173 (Link to this contribution) I have already dealt with that issue. I repeat that I entirely refute the idea that my right hon. Fr...

Angus Robertson | 465 c173 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for the advance copy of his statement and welcome the work of Ron Gou...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c173 (Link to this contribution) There is a recommendation about education—and if the elections are decoupled, as we anticipate that ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c174 (Link to this contribution) I can give my right hon. Friend the assurance that he and the voters of Scotland expect—that this wi...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c176-7 (Link to this contribution) When someone has achieved at least some of their ambitions, as the right hon. Gentleman has, they ca...

Lord Field of Birkenhead | 465 c177 (Link to this contribution) Given the smooth running of elections to this House, when the Secretary of State makes his final rep...

Charles Kennedy | 465 c176 (Link to this contribution) That is because I am beyond ambition.

David Wilshire | 465 c177 (Link to this contribution) To save the Secretary of State from pointing it out, I start by saying that I am English and I repre...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c177 (Link to this contribution) I am tempted just to say yes—but I do not want this to move from a statement on the Gould report on ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c178-9 (Link to this contribution) Let me say two things to the right hon. Gentleman, who I think was making a party political point dr...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c179 (Link to this contribution) I commend my hon. Friend for his contribution. He has distinguished himself in the House as a Member...

Alan Reid | 465 c179 (Link to this contribution) When a public opinion research company was commissioned to do research into the Scottish Parliament ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c181 (Link to this contribution) Factually, the hon. Gentleman is incorrect, but it would serve no purpose to point out when there wa...

Gordon Banks | 465 c181 (Link to this contribution) Returning to the issue of manual and electronic counting, does my right hon. Friend agree that the r...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c179-80 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is going to make that sort of allegation, he at least has the obligation to sa...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 465 c180 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware of the inconsistency of approach of returning officers throughout...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c180 (Link to this contribution) I know that there was great concern about the fact that, on the same night and in pretty similar cir...

Julian Lewis | 465 c180 (Link to this contribution) May I urge the Secretary of State to give a more thoughtful response to the cogent points raised by ...

Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 465 c178 (Link to this contribution) Following what my right hon. Friend the Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Mr. Kennedy) said, may I...

Anne Begg | 465 c178 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to hear the Secretary of State emphasise that the lessons in the report go beyond Scotland...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c178 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. That is why we have already committed to feeding in to the Green Paper ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c177 (Link to this contribution) The report does not suggest that any Minister tried to corrupt the electoral process. [Hon. Members:...

Adam Afriyie | 465 c182 (Link to this contribution) This has clearly been an embarrassing, difficult and uncomfortable statement for the Secretary of St...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c182 (Link to this contribution) I am entirely content with the words in my statement. I am entirely content that they respond in a p...

Jo Swinson | 465 c181 (Link to this contribution) To return to the issue of the postal voting chaos that disfranchised many of my constituents, I welc...

David Hamilton | 465 c179 (Link to this contribution) A sequence of events normally precedes a disaster—I say that from an old miner's point of view—and w...

Mohammad Sarwar | 465 c169-70 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that this country has the fine tradition of announcing election resu...

Gavin Strang | 465 c172 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Edinburgh, East and Musselburgh Scottish parliamentary consti...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c181 (Link to this contribution) The presentation of ballot papers that voters can clearly understand, and that do not confuse them b...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 465 c182 (Link to this contribution) The report addresses those issues and brings to the attention of those who need to know it that thes...

Subjects

Devolution Elections Electoral Commission Local government Polling stations Scotland Voting methods Scottish Parliament Scottish Executive

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