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HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I think that it might be my turn now. First, I apologise for not being in the House for the session before lunch. I was attending the Committee on Standards in Public…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords—17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords—17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I rise to ask some questions very much in parallel with those the noble Lord, Lord Collins, posed to the Minister. The word “encourage” is difficult to define in the…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman of Ullock, very generously attributed to us two items of business on this string that were actually submitted primarily by her colleague,…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I will comment on Amendment 31, which is about record-keeping. I return to the point I made a few minutes ago: it is about not just keeping the records but access to the…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI apologise if I was misunderstood. I was referring not to digital campaigning but to the digital submission of election expenses. At the moment, they are often kept in a cupboard…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, on Amendment 28B, which is about transparency, perhaps the Minister could comment on some of the recommendations in the CSPL report which related precisely to the point…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I may be able to join up some of the dots in what has just been said, particularly to draw out the position of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. The noble…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, we have already explored what the exact meaning of “encouraged” is. I thought the answer was going be a lemon, but it is guidance, apparently, which is not very…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI appreciate the Minister giving way. I hope that his response will include a little more about what the Committee on Standards in Public Life recommended as the solution to the…10 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI thank noble Lords and join in the general confusion about where we are up to. I speak in favour of the two amendments in this group tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher.…10 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I will speak very briefly to this amendment. I seem to have used my time allocation earlier—I apologise to the Minister for wasting his time. However, as the noble Lord,…10 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI rise to oppose the proposition that Clause 17 should stand part of the Bill. Clause 17 is a strange animal. In explaining something of the context for new sub-paragraph (2)(a),…10 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I support the amendment, probing as it is, from the noble Baroness. As she quite rightly said, this in large measure prefigures the next debate we are going to have. I…10 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I rise to support my noble friend and Amendment 18 and to thank the noble Lord, Lord Young, who, once again, trumps everybody by having been the Minister, which is a bit…10 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, the merits of the amendment are secondary to the replies that the Minister gave on the previous group of amendments. I thought that he might like a second go when…10 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillOn a straight point of information, if an emergency statement is produced without consultation, can the Minister give us an assurance that it will itself come before both Houses…10 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillCould the Minister confirm that, when he referred to the Speaker’s commission just now, he meant the Speaker’s committee? He suggested that it had a wide remit to consult with…10 Mar 2022HANSARDNuclear Energy (Financing) BillMy Lords—08 Mar 2022