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HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hayward. As an aside on families and secrecy of the ballot, I have had to ask somebody to be a proxy only once: during…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I do not need to meet the Bill team. The impact assessment that the Minister signed off on 20 January this year says very clearly on page 30, paragraph 18, on this…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillIt was 12 years.21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillThe Electoral Commission’s analysis of the 2019 pilots showed that people in the compulsory voter ID pilot, after the ballot, had a 69% satisfaction rate with the poll, compared…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I shall speak first to my Amendment 66A and, in so doing, I draw the Committee’s attention to my entry in the register, particularly my interest as a vice-president of…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillThat is very well and good but coming back to the impact assessment, on applying for absent votes, paragraph 117 says: “The requirement for identity verification as a part of the…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, at Second Reading, my noble friend Lord Rennard, who unfortunately cannot be here today, drew attention to the Government’s negligence in trying to assess the scale of…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillWill the Minister clarify one issue? Why is the provision to allow an application up until 5 pm on the day before the election considered to be consistent with Northern Ireland?…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I wish to speak to the amendments in my name in this group, namely Amendments 96A, 96B, 96C and 96D. The Government have proposed limiting the number of postal votes a…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI want to follow on from the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, because his concerns were also mine. I am not clear what the definition of some of these issues would be in law and how they…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillCan the noble Baroness explain where the Electoral Commission by itself said that voter ID was required? Or was it responding to options that were put before it in terms of what…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I support the amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman. These Benches concur with a lot of what she had to say. When I asked why the number of postal…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI think it is important for the Committee to understand this because the noble Lord has said something at the Dispatch Box which they will find is slightly different when they…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillThe pilot was done in 2019. These are people who actually had the photo ID. When there was photo ID against a control group of no photo ID, the people who were more satisfied with…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI will answer the Minister directly. The Northern Ireland experience shows that between 2% and 3% of people, after the introduction, did not vote. If we extrapolate that over…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillThe Minister might have inadvertently misled the Committee from the Dispatch Box in the figures she has just quoted from the Electoral Commission’s survey of 2019. The…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillIt is really important that we have a level playing field here. Of the countries that the Minister has just outlined, how many do not have mandatory ID cards?17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillCan I be clear? The House has heard three times from the Government Front Bench about their manifesto. Did the Government’s manifesto commit to compulsory voter ID?17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I have listened to this debate with a sense of bewilderment and admiration, but I am still not clear what the imposition of compulsory voter ID is going to solve. As the…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillBefore the Minister answers that, could I gently remind Members that it is within the Companion and courteous not to intervene in debate when they were not here and did not come…17 Mar 2022