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HANSARDElections BillI thank the Minister for her comprehensive reply. I was particularly pleased to hear that disabled people will be able to apply for a permanent proxy vote; that is very useful to…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI thank the Minister for his response and I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to this lengthy debate, and the Minister for his detailed responses. I am sure that there are areas of these amendments…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI thank both my noble friends for their contributions and support for this amendment. As I said, this measure seems simple and straightforward to me. On the basis that it is…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections Bill21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI was only giving my personal experience.21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections Bill21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections Bill21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI shall move this amendment very swiftly because I was intending to spend most of this speech discussing what the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, said about his amendment,…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, it has been a particularly interesting debate on the definition of spirituality and so on. We need to get more definition and clarity in order to move forward, so that…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillPerhaps I may clarify, as this has come up before. When you go to selection meetings you are asked to take a membership card in case anyone wants to check it, but it is not…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillIt is an option.21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I beg to move Amendment 118A on behalf of the noble Lord, Lord Holmes of Richmond, who cannot be in his place today. I am doing this to allow for debate at this time on…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillAs the Minister said, we had an extensive debate on this at our previous Committee sitting, so I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I have tabled Amendments 96E to 96J. Similar to the last group, these are probing amendments on the proposals for proxy votes. During the progress of the Bill, the…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, there is a large number of amendments in this group, all of which refer to Schedule 1. As my noble friend Lord Adonis said, Schedule 1 is pretty enormous—there is a huge…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections Bill17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI thank all noble Lords who have spoken in the debate. I am grateful for the wide support for the amendments and for what we are trying to achieve with them. The noble Baroness,…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, we now move back to the beginning of the Bill, to Clause 1 on voter identification and the Government’s proposals to introduce photographic voter ID at polling stations.…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillIn that case, can the Minister explain why it was not detailed in the manifesto?17 Mar 2022