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HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, the purpose of this amendment is very simple. It is to increase transparency around third-party campaigners—not campaigning—by inserting a new clause entitled:…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I am grateful for the support for this amendment. I say to the noble Baroness, Lady Barker, that I am proud to be an anorak with her, on this and other issues. She of…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections Bill17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who have spoken in favour of my amendment: to the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, for his support, and to the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, who was…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Amendment 48A has been grouped with the stand part debate. I thought about degrouping it, but having seen the lie of the land and the way that the debate was likely to go, it…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillThe faith groups will be particularly affected, particularly the Quakers, because of the nature of their organisation, which is quite devolved. It presents difficult challenges…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I did not intervene in the last serious and lengthy debate. I understood how seriously many Members of your Lordships’ House took the issue. I had some peripheral…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I just want to intervene, not about the substance of the matter we are debating but about the process. We have two very interesting parallel amendments which have what…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI thank noble Lords who have participated in this debate. The noble Baroness, Lady Lister of Burtersett, and I can disagree violently, have done and will no doubt do so again in…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, in moving Amendment 33A, I will speak also to Amendment 39. I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, for putting his name to the first of those. He has…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections Bill15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillWhen my noble friend says that he has confidence in the Electoral Commission, which I understand, will this be a statutory code, or will it just be guidance, without any statutory…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI think the Electoral Commission is a special case because we are talking about an elections Bill, but it goes wider than that. My noble friend Lord Blencathra is hot on this. He…15 Mar 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I am afraid I have to plead guilty as charged to the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Hacking, since I was chair of the committee on citizenship and citizenship…08 Mar 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I have put my name to Amendment 80, which I am pleased to support—and I also support Amendment 81 very strongly as well. My noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe is a demon…08 Mar 2022HANSARDOffice for Demographic Change Bill [HL]My Lords, I am very grateful to all those who have participated in this debate. I absolutely recognise that this is a very delicate and difficult subject in which almost anything…04 Mar 2022HANSARDOffice for Demographic Change Bill [HL]I am very happy to accept that rejoinder. I say to the Minister: am I surprised? No. Am I disappointed? Yes. Are the ONS and MAC providing enough? We know that they are not; they…04 Mar 2022HANSARDOffice for Demographic Change Bill [HL]That the Bill be now read a second time.04 Mar 2022HANSARDOffice for Demographic Change Bill [HL]My Lords, it may seem inappropriate, perhaps even in bad taste, to be discussing 20 to 25-year projections of our population when on the other side of Europe, a country’s cities…04 Mar 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI rise briefly to support this amendment. I had an opportunity years ago, when we were part of the European Union, to participate in an inquiry about FRONTEX and to go to Heathrow…02 Mar 2022