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HANSARDElections Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, Chair. My first question is for Dr Dommett, regarding your research on digital campaigning. Obviously, for about a decade now, there has been widespread support and…15 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Second sitting)Q Are you confident about being able to provide a female polling clerk at every one of your polling stations? Rob Connelly: We have been talking about this as two considerations,…15 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (First sitting)Q Turning to postal votes, this legislation obviously makes some minor changes to the way in which postal votes are handled, in terms of limiting the number of postal votes that…15 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (First sitting)Q I wanted to pick up on the example given of Birmingham, which was quite a long time ago. The laws around postal votes and electoral registration have changed since, and a…15 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (First sitting)Q If I understand it correctly, Richard, in most cases it would require the consent of everyone involved. The people registered at an address that they were not actually living at…15 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (First sitting)Q My final question is about the resources of local government, because under this legislation, local government will be asked to do more because of the requirement to issue free…15 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Second sitting)Q My final question is about the practicalities of a local authority running the polling stations. The legislation would require voters to show photo ID. The Minister has said in…15 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (First sitting)Q If I may follow up on that, my question to you, Gareth, was going to be slightly different. It is on the policing of electoral fraud, particularly in relation to overseas…15 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you, Ms Rees. My first question is to the witnesses from local government. What will be the practical and cost implications for electoral administrators and councils of…15 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Second sitting)Q Louise, in your earlier remarks, you were talking about overseas electors and how administering the applications and registrations for voting takes up the most time of electoral…15 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Second sitting)Q I have one final question for Ailsa Irvine. The Electoral Commission reports to and is funded by the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Senedd, as well as the UK Parliament. How…15 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Second sitting)Q If I may ask Peter Stanyon to answer a question from the point of view of the electoral administrators, obviously the issuing of free voter identification cards will fall to…15 Sept 2021HANSARDElections Bill (Second sitting)Q If I could begin with you, Ms McVea. Part of the Bill concerns electors showing voter identification at polling stations. That has been a requirement in Northern Ireland for…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill (Instruction)I rise to support my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant), as the House should be able to debate these issues. He started by saying he is Billy No Mates, but he will…13 Sept 2021HANSARDDissolution and Calling of Parliament BillI agree. In fact, it is probably like dealing with a toddler: if we tell them not to do something, we know fine well that they will do it.13 Sept 2021HANSARDDissolution and Calling of Parliament BillI agree with the heckling from my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda. I think the right hon. Member for Elmet and Rothwell (Alec Shelbrooke) is quite wrong and that the public are…13 Sept 2021HANSARDDissolution and Calling of Parliament BillThis Bill would have benefited from being amended in Committee. Although it is right and proper that the Fixed-term Parliaments Act is repealed, as it was so clearly flawed,…13 Sept 2021HANSARDDissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill(Lancaster and Fleetwood) (Lab): The Bill does two things: it repeals the Fixed-term Parliaments Act; and reinstates—or attempts to reinstate—the status quo that existed before…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Elections BillMy hon. Friend is exactly right. In fact, the Bill contains no details about how local authorities are going to roll out this so-called voter ID, which, as she points out, is not…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Elections BillIs the hon. Member saying that 2% of his electorate should not have access to democracy? That appears to be what he is saying. Yes, 98% of people might well have valid ID, but 2%…07 Sept 2021