Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Attorney General

Oral Answers to Questions

Andrew Gwynne Excerpts
Tuesday 10th February 2015

(9 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sam Gyimah Portrait Mr Gyimah
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If we did not want young people to get on the register, we would not be funding the very organisations that have the experience and expertise for getting young people to vote. That is the first point. The second is that the Northern Ireland system was paper-based, but we have an online system spanning 363 local authorities. This is a much superior system for getting young people to register from their laptops, smartphones or tablets and computers.

Andrew Gwynne Portrait Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish) (Lab)
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T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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I am grateful for such applause as I rise to my feet. As Deputy Prime Minister, I support the Prime Minister on a full range of Government policy initiatives. Within government, I take special responsibility for this Government’s programme of political and constitutional reform.

Andrew Gwynne Portrait Andrew Gwynne
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The Deputy Prime Minister talks a lot about cleaning up political donations, yet his Liberal Democrats were perfectly willing to take a donation of £34,000 from the managing director of Autofil Yarns, a company that is removing 160 British jobs to Bulgaria to protect its profits. Does the Deputy Prime Minister regret that? Is he going to repay it, or is this just another yarn that is being spun by the Liberal Democrats?

Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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The puns come thick and fast. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will explain why his party blocked party political funding reform recently, and whether his question was written by one of his trade union paymasters. Being lectured by the Labour party on how parties are funded really takes the biscuit.