Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

Debate between Viscount Eccles and Lord Wills

Wednesday 19th January 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord Wills]

I am extremely grateful to the Minister for that elucidation, but will he consider this: is not an even greater problem this continuing shame that 3 million to 3.5 million of our citizens, who are eligible to vote, are for one reason and another excluded from the register? That seems to me to go to the heart of the problem which this amendment is designed to address. The real issue, it seems to me at least, is one of timing. If the Minister was able to tell the Committee—

[Viscount Eccles]

Why does the noble Lord use the word, “excluded”?