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HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, perhaps I may remark to my noble friend Lord Rennard and the noble Lord, Lord Hayward, that in the process of this Bill I have appreciated that it is possible to be…25 Apr 2022HANSARDOffshore Companies: PropertyMy Lords, it is four years since the passage of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act required the overseas territories to open up their company registers. My understanding…29 Mar 2022HANSARDOffshore Companies: PropertyTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress they made towards ensuring the transparency of beneficial ownership of offshore companies holding properties in the United Kingdom in…29 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, this has been a very useful debate, which has yet again exposed how unco-ordinated and ill thought through this Bill is. I strongly agree with what the Minister said:…28 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, in this overfull House at this late hour, I will be extremely brief. I note that the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson, who said to me earlier that he thought that this is one of…28 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillWould that be without any cap on the size of the donation offered? Would the Minister consider that a cap on the size of a donation offered by, for example, Sir Philip Green might…28 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, I remind him of the third link in this, which is that campaigning for overseas voters is going to be very expensive and the advantage…28 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, my name is on several of the amendments in this group, and I will therefore speak to some of them. Amendment 197 would tighten the rules on permissible donors and…28 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones for the amendments he has brought forward with a great deal more expertise about this new dimension of campaigning than I…28 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I have great sympathy with the arguments of the noble Lord, Lord Green of Deddington; I am sorry he looks so surprised. We need to sort out what we mean by UK…28 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillThere are lots of ramifications that we have discussed extensively. I am happy to discuss them with the noble Lord off the Floor. What I am objecting to is dashing ahead with this…28 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillYes, and to create overseas constituencies. I am looking at the noble Lord, Lord Altrincham, who was deeply shocked to be told by the noble Lord, Lord True, in a meeting a few…28 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I regret that the noble Lord, Lord True, is unable to be with us. I gather he is down with Covid, and I send him sympathies. I hope I have not caught it from him—we…28 Mar 2022HANSARDElections Bill28 Mar 2022HANSARDCivil Servants: Reduction of NumbersTo ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the proposals set out by the Minister for Government Efficiency to reduce the number of civil servants by 65,000 will require either (1) a…24 Mar 2022HANSARDCivil Servants: Reduction of NumbersMy Lords, does the Minister accept that it is a little surreal to have made Jacob Rees-Mogg Minister for Government Efficiency, and that his explicit view that civil servants are…24 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillThe noble Baroness may be aware that there is an equivalent of a national register: Experian, which collects a great deal of data and is used by a lot of private and public…23 Mar 2022HANSARDElections Bill23 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, overseas voting extension is an important part of this Bill, one of the many bits that is substantially changing the pattern of voting. It could add a couple of million…23 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, if the Government were in a mood to try to build any sort of consensus on the Bill, which they clearly are not, I would hope that they would be willing to consider…23 Mar 2022