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HANSARDElections Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Fazilet, welcome to the Committee and thank you very much for the contributions you have made so far. I have a couple of questions. You opened your remarks by describing how you…16 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Under clause 25, the Minister would also have the power to add or remove categories of campaigners from being permitted to campaign in elections. Do you have some concern about…16 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Third sitting)Q That final point links to my last question. You have alluded to a hostile environment, and a nervousness to engage with—what is seen as—an establishment. Do you think that the…16 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fourth sitting)On a point of order, Ms Rees. A motion to approve an instruction has been laid by the Government and will be heard on the Floor of the House on Monday, regarding expanding the…16 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fourth sitting)Further to that point of order, is it possible for the Committee to take evidence on electoral systems at any future scheduled evidence sessions that would take place after…16 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Third sitting)Q To break that down a little bit further, I have seen evidence that Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities are also less likely to have ID. The free local voter card, proposed by…16 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Third sitting)Q Thank you Maurice for your time this morning. We have seen American civil rights groups campaigning quite strongly about the introduction in some US states of ID requirements to…16 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Third sitting)Q Very quickly, you told the Committee earlier that you left the UK in 1978 and are not entirely sure if or where you were registered when you left. You were asking how you could…16 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I apologise to our witness. I am afraid I had some lift troubles, trying to get down to the first floor. I thank you for your time before the Committee. Will you outline…16 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you. I have one follow-up question. The legislation impacts on third-party campaigners, and you have already said that the regulations for elections run across many…16 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Third sitting)Thank you so much for your time.16 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fourth sitting)I will try repeating my question. Is there anything that you feel is missing from the legislation that would strengthen elections, or anything that is amendable that needs to be…16 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fourth sitting)Thank you, Ms Rees.16 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Third sitting)Q If I might interrupt slightly, Anne—I apologise—it might help if I direct some more specific questions to you, because I did ask a specific question to both the other witnesses…16 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Fourth sitting)Thank you.16 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Third sitting)Q It is good to have you with us, Anne, having resolved the technical issues. My opening question to the other panellists, before you joined us, was about the experience of voting…16 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Second sitting)Q In your opening remarks, you said that you had moved on, in that this was no longer the problem that it was in 2004. Does that indicate that the current legislation is…15 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Second sitting)It was about third-party campaigners and the Minister’s power to remove their ability to campaign. Dr Dommett: I have concerns about the powers of ministerial discretion in a…15 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (First sitting)Q Richard, can I start with you and the Tower Hamlets examples that you have already outlined? Thank you for that. You said that in Tower Hamlets there was a wide range of…15 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Second sitting)Q You touched on the issue of third-party campaigners, and beyond the digital side, the legislation actually gives the Minister for the Cabinet Office the power to remove the…15 Sept 2021