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HANSARD Voter IDThe hon. Lady is right to highlight all the practical work that is going on, and I want to thank local authorities very much for the way they have delivered those additional…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDI thank my hon. Friend for his question. When Labour Ministers introduced voter ID in Northern Ireland, they set out in great detail why the legislation was necessary. Why is it…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDI refer the hon. Lady to my earlier remarks, where I answered the question clearly.27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDNo, I strongly reject that. I can see where this debate is going. Opposition Members are making shrill, hyperbolic and misguided claims that this is somehow voter suppression. I…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDYes. I set that out in the earlier part of my answer to the urgent question, which I am afraid the hon. Lady missed.27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDI firmly rebut that. I have made multiple comments answering the questions that Members have put to me. I also firmly rebut the accusations from Opposition Members suggesting that…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDThere has been extensive work and engagement with local authorities by the Electoral Commission, the Government and others to make sure that all possible scenarios and processes…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDI thank my hon. Friend for the question and encourage all of her constituents, from whatever age group, to go to the polling station. There is a long list of valid forms of photo…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDOf course I do.27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDI do not in any way recognise the statement that the hon. Gentleman made about considerable anger. In fact, nationwide polling indicates precisely the opposite. The public are…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDThere is no vote rigging going on here. Under the process that has been set out through regulations, when people who are turned away later return to the polling station with…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDI am satisfied that the Government are introducing all relevant public health advice, including to people who are clinically vulnerable. The hon. Member for Lancaster and…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDI have not obfuscated or ignored the point. I have been clear that the data on people who are turned away and who later return to the polling station with accepted ID will be…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDPilots have been conducted on a number of occasions in, I think, Woking and Pendle. A thorough study was carried out, and we found no evidence of turnout being lowered. We also…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDI say again that it is a shame that Opposition Members are attempting to engage in this hysterical scaremongering. The hon. Lady’s voters in Wirral West, just like voters across…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I am grateful to be able to answer that. This has been referred to many times during the debate. Of course, I have not seen the…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDThe Government simply do not recognise the figures that Members are using or the false voter suppression narrative that they are putting forward. We know that 98% of the…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDThe hon. Gentleman’s comments do him no credit. I will directly address the remarks about the Norfolk leaflet. The people responsible apologised straightaway. It went through, I…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDI stand corrected by the hon. Gentleman who is speaking from a sedentary position. The hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) is the only such Member I can see in front of me,…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Voter IDI thank the hon. Gentleman. He is probably the only Member of this House who has real experience of the system working.27 Apr 2023