Passports: Strike Action and Voter ID

Debate between Lord Murray of Blidworth and Lord Vaux of Harrowden

Monday 20th March 2023 Lords Chamber

[Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con)]

I am afraid that this question, too, is an awfully long way from the Private Notice Question in relation to the action taken in the Passport Office. As to forms of identity for voting in person at polling stations, if the noble Baroness wishes to put a Question about postal voting, she can put it to the relevant Minister in DLUHC.

[Lord Vaux of Harrowden (CB)]

My Lords, like many in this House, I am registered to vote in two places. I have had no information from either local authority about the need for voter ID yet. It is only a number of weeks before the election; at what point are people going to be informed by local authorities of both the need for voter ID and the ability to apply for a local authority voting card?

[Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con)]

The noble Lord is perhaps fortunate in that I received notice last week, together with my council tax bill for the coming year. I understand that that is fairly wide practice.