Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Greg Mulholland Excerpts
Tuesday 22nd June 2010

(14 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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As I said, we need to proceed with care and make sure that the system is properly resourced. As the hon. Gentleman rightly said, the present timetable is for voluntary individual registration to continue until, I think, 2015 before a compulsory phase is introduced. We are actively looking at whether that is feasible and justifiable and whether we can resource an acceleration of the timetable. We have not yet decided on that.

Greg Mulholland Portrait Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West) (LD)
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The unfinished business of devolution is the situation England finds itself in. Will my right hon. Friend tell us what plans the coalition Government have to address that?