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Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Wednesday, 2 February 2011, in the House of Lords.

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill. Lords committee stage (seventeenth day). Schedule 4 debated and agreed. Schedule 5 amendments considered and agreed. Schedule 5 as amended, agreed. Schedules 6-8, as amended agreed. Schedule 9 agreed. Schedule 10 amendments considered and withdrawn. Schedules 10-11 agreed. Bill reported with amendments.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
724 c1433-58 
Session
2010-12
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Committee stage
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House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1450-1 (Link to this contribution) 122H: Schedule 6, page 187, line 28, at end insert— ““Provision of registers etc to counting officer...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1451 (Link to this contribution) 122J: Schedule 7, page 227, line 35, at end insert— ““Schedule 8 to the 2010 Order has effect— (a) a...
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Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1449 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I never cease to be amazed at the ingenuity of observers at counts in trying to work out w...
Lord Maxton | 724 c1450 (Link to this contribution) As someone who, like the noble and learned Lord, has been involved in elections, I know that there i...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1450 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a matter of local discretion. Elections have worked well in these respects. When I f...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1450 (Link to this contribution) 122G: Schedule 6, page 187, line 7, at end insert— ““( ) Regulation 121 of the Representation of the...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1448 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not necessarily think that it is bound to cost more money. But overall it is clear th...
Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke | 724 c1448 (Link to this contribution) I have a question for the noble and learned Lord which I was going to ask in relation to Schedule 7,...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1448-9 (Link to this contribution) I certainly undertake to come back and give some clarification to the noble Baroness and many others...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 724 c1449 (Link to this contribution) In that connection, I would be most grateful if the noble and learned Lord would deal with one other...
Lord Bach | 724 c1453 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the noble Lord or his official on having spotted that the word ““spoilt”” should not ...
Lord Strathclyde | 724 c1453 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a new but small point. The amendment seeks to ensure that instruction 9 of form 2—...
Lord Strathclyde | 724 c1453 (Link to this contribution) 122S: Schedule 8, page 274, line 29, leave out ““spoilt””
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1453 (Link to this contribution) 122R: Schedule 8, page 272, line 5, at end insert— ““( ) Regulation 115(1) of the 2008 Regulations h...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1452 (Link to this contribution) 122P: Schedule 8, page 271, line 16, leave out from ““are”” to end of line 18 and insert— ““(i) the ...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1452-3 (Link to this contribution) 122Q: Schedule 8, page 272, line 3, leave out ““paragraphs 11 and 17C(b) were omitted”” and insert “...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1452 (Link to this contribution) 122M: Schedule 8, page 267, line 14, leave out sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) and insert— ““(1) Where— (...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1452 (Link to this contribution) 122N: Schedule 8, page 267, line 25, at end insert— ““Schedule 3 to the Local Elections (Northern Ir...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1451 (Link to this contribution) 122K: Schedule 7, page 228, line 18, at end insert— ““Provision of registers etc to counting officer...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1451-2 (Link to this contribution) 122L: Schedule 8, page 262, line 16, at end insert— ““( ) Where appropriate— (a) a reference in any ...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1442 (Link to this contribution) 122F: Schedule 5, page 152, line 26, at end insert— ““Provision of registers etc to counting officer...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1441-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I understand that through scrutiny of the legislation it was noticed that these points nee...
Baroness Golding | 724 c1439 (Link to this contribution) I realise that the noble and learned Lord does not wish to tackle one of the best agents, but there ...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1439-40 (Link to this contribution) If a person who has been taken into hospital requires an emergency postal vote, it is highly unlikel...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1440 (Link to this contribution) 122DA: Schedule 5, page 138, line 2, at end insert— ““( ) Regulation 11 of the Local Authorities (Co...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1440 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Clause 4 makes it clear that the local government referendums in England can be combined w...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1440 (Link to this contribution) 122E: Schedule 5, page 151, line 40, at end insert— ““( ) Regulation 116(1) of the Representation of...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1440-1 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak also to the other amendments in this group, all of which are related. Indeed, they rel...
Lord Bach | 724 c1441 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing his amendments. I have a simple question. Why are the...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 724 c1441 (Link to this contribution) Let me provide a little more time for officials to advise the noble and learned Lord. I should be gr...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 724 c1448 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister accept that it is bound to cost more money if there is one box which has to be sep...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1448 (Link to this contribution) I do not quite follow that because if there is a delay because of weather or transport, it will affe...
Lord Maxton | 724 c1447-8 (Link to this contribution) Given the assurance that the Minister gave last night that in the Scottish situation the parliamenta...
Lord Tyler | 724 c1444 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when my noble friend responds on this debate, can he reassure us that past experience of t...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 724 c1442-3 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the noble and learned Lord can answer a few questions on Schedule 5, which refers t...
Lord McAvoy | 724 c1443-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I return briefly to an area that I mentioned last night on which I did not get a response ...
Lord McAvoy | 724 c1446 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, once again, interventions made by the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, seek only to extend the time...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1447 (Link to this contribution) I wondered when it was going to stop. In dealing with these schedules, it is important that these qu...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 724 c1445 (Link to this contribution) I come back to a point that I raised on a previous amendment in relation to the fact that there are ...
Lord Grocott | 724 c1445-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it often happens that you can see something in a schedule that raises quite an important m...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 724 c1435 (Link to this contribution) That may well be the explanation. If so, that element of confusion in my mind is no longer of any re...
Baroness Golding | 724 c1434 (Link to this contribution) It will be marked by the returning officer on the sheet that they have a postal vote. Therefore, the...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 724 c1436 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend has raised two interesting points. The first concerns the prohibition agai...
Lord Maxton | 724 c1435-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, following the comments of my noble friend Lord Campbell-Savours, I wish to refer to postal...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 724 c1434 (Link to this contribution) That may well be the case. There may well be an explanation as to how it can be done. All I am sayin...
Lord Maxton | 724 c1434 (Link to this contribution) I am not absolutely sure about this but I seem to remember that this happened to me once. I could ta...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 724 c1436 (Link to this contribution) One can understand that. It is a little difficult in legislation to draw the line between what peopl...
Baroness Golding | 724 c1436 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency we have a police officer who is now retired. He was advised not to join the Labou...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 724 c1437 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend Lord Campbell-Savours has done the Committee a good service by drawing our attention...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 724 c1436-7 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps it would be helpful if the Minister could assure us that when the law in this whole area is ...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 724 c1438 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend Lady Golding intervened to correct me. However, it still leaves a question in my min...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1438 (Link to this contribution) The thing to say is do not use it, or, if you have used it, do not take the second vote. The importa...
Lord Maxton | 724 c1438 (Link to this contribution) In that case, is the Minister saying that it will be the responsibility of the person who is registe...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 724 c1437 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend has a great talent for a kind of lateral thinking that is always fruitful in our deb...
Lord Grocott | 724 c1437 (Link to this contribution) I hope that this does not sound flippant, but an anomalous situation could arise, given what my nobl...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1439 (Link to this contribution) As one who stood for election on I do not know how many occasions, I shall not tangle with one of th...
Lord Bach | 724 c1439 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Rennard, is being a bit hard on those who stand for elections. Their ...
Lord Rennard | 724 c1439 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the Minister would agree with me that the reason why we have a cut-off for applying for a po...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 724 c1433-4 (Link to this contribution) I wish to intervene in this debate following a contribution yesterday by my noble and learned friend...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 724 c1434 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend knew but I can tell that there are others in the Chamber who did not.
Lord Campbell-Savours | 724 c1458 (Link to this contribution) In the spirit of constructive co-operation which we on this side have been practising and advocating...
Lord Bach | 724 c1458 (Link to this contribution) To a large extent the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, will be satisfied. The Committee will be grateful to ...
Lord Strathclyde | 724 c1456-8 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord was kind to speak to these amendments on behalf of the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, who m...
Lord Tyler | 724 c1455 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that is what the amendment says. It states: "““If there is equality of votes at any s...
Lord Bach | 724 c1455-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that is very doubtful indeed. The expression ““at any stage”” could well apply to the posi...
Lord Bach | 724 c1454-5 (Link to this contribution) I take on board what the noble Lord has said. He is right—there should be recounts for those who fin...
Lord Bach | 724 c1453 (Link to this contribution) 123: Schedule 10, page 295, leave out lines 6 to 45 and insert— ““““Equality of votes If there is eq...
Lord Bach | 724 c1454 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 124 and Schedule 10 stand part on behalf of my noble frien...
Baroness Golding | 724 c1445 (Link to this contribution) On ballot boxes, in my area, there will be a full parish council election, a local government electi...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1437-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank noble Lords who have taken part in this debate and highlighted some interesting aspects. I s...
Lord Rennard | 724 c1454 (Link to this contribution) Why does the noble Lord think that this should apply at any point in the counting process? I have de...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 724 c1438 (Link to this contribution) I will certainly check and advise the noble Lord, and other noble Lords who have contributed to the ...
Subjects
Alternative vote Administration Absent voting Elections Northern Ireland Referendums Proof of identity Scotland Wales
Legislation
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill 2010-12
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