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Lords Chamber
Cybersecurity and UK Democracy - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: None email and file-sharing systems, which contain copies of the electoral register. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) Can the Minister assist in providing the necessary transparency and reassurance so that this matter can - Speech Link
3: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) Lord, Lord Alton, who has earned the opprobrium of the Chinese Communist Party thanks to his tireless campaigning - Speech Link
4: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) The electoral registration officers for each local authority hold the live versions of the electoral - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) it harder for some people to vote and to vastly increase the amount of money that can be spent on campaigning - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) What about an NGO campaigning to stop a proposed new nuclear power station, or a group campaigning for - Speech Link
3: None campaigning to diminish the trust the electorate has in the political system. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) Given how young attainers could be, it would protect them from the unwarranted attentions of campaigning - Speech Link
5: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) As I recall, the ages are on the electoral register. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Representation of the People (Variation of Election Expenses and Exclusions) Regulations 2024 - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None I thank the Electoral Commission for drawing the Government’s attention to this point of law and for - Speech Link
2: None Lord also expresses regret in respect of the effect of increasing reporting thresholds on reducing the transparency - Speech Link
3: Lord Rennard (LD - Life peer) reach voters by current expense limits, and the effect of increasing reporting thresholds on reducing transparency - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) say what is often considered the unsayable: we need state funding of political parties and election campaigning - Speech Link
5: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) expenses incurred to protect candidates, their families and supporters to be seen as part of the cost of campaigning - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Andrew Jones (Con - Harrogate and Knaresborough) how well the money is spent.There have been huge increases in public spending, so we need to ensure transparency - Speech Link
2: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) There was nothing in that Budget that would give hope to those of us who have been campaigning for years - Speech Link
3: Navendu Mishra (Lab - Stockport) Robinsons of Stockport, an iconic brewery business going back to the 1940s, and others have been campaigning - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) It is little wonder that the erosion of our roads has been mirrored by the electoral erosion of the Conservative - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Report stage - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) We held quite a few hearings on the Bill last year, which came after a long period of campaigning for - Speech Link
2: Viscount Colville of Culross (XB - Excepted Hereditary) This seemed a wonderful offer that would go far towards ensuring transparency in the process and allay - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) that we should not drop this issue just because it is inconvenient to deal with at this point in the electoral - Speech Link
4: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, the Government fundamentally believe that public transparency is vital for the new digital - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) Transparency is a key tool in tackling the gender pay gap. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) We must have not just more pay transparency but state enforcement mechanisms involving our trade unions.AI - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) I first got into politics because of a fluke in our electoral system. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Athene Donald said that it is not a case of campaigning for more girls to do physics; it is a case of - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 14 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Bristol (Bshp - Bishops) The UK has a strong national referral mechanism but without proper monitoring and transparency worked - Speech Link
2: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) Transparency International marked Rwanda five out of 47 in terms of corruption indicators. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Those errors have been identified, partly because of the noble Lord’s campaigning, and I am assured that - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) occasion, I suggest that it is well worth listening to the Front Bench of this party, with its great electoral - Speech Link
5: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) But it is not under the DevTracker system of transparency at the FCO: it is from the Home Office, so - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) That is the route this Bill takes Parliament down.Take a third example: the Electoral Commission decides - Speech Link
2: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) I am very aware of the noble Baroness’s campaigning work on the topic, and she will be aware that the - Speech Link
3: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) I would have thought that my noble friend the Minister could accommodate the relative transparency of - Speech Link
4: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (XB - Life peer) for that because they were destitute on arrival.To echo the call from the noble Lord, Lord Dodds, for transparency - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jack Lopresti (Con - Filton and Bradley Stoke) First, the youth, as a majority of the population, seem disaffected, judging by falling electoral turnout - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) The relatives are asking for access and greater transparency about what evidence is being used to justify - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) Baghdad, will work hard to ensure they can happen as soon as possible—indeed, before the Independent High Electoral - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Electoral Commission Strategy and Policy Statement - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) run, who can participate with regard to registration, franchise and candidacy, and how elections and campaigning - Speech Link
2: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) Commission and the Electoral Commission itself. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) The Electoral Commission was in denial about its failure to deal with electoral fraud in Tower Hamlets - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Overseeing that should be the independent Electoral Commission. - Speech Link