"Q Karen, I have a question for you. You said that in Wales there have been four pilot areas of automatic voter registration. For my benefit and that of the Committee, could you tell us where they were? Were they for council elections? If they were, why did you …..." Lewis Cocking - View Speech
"Q If you are going to take those recommendations forward and do automatic voter registration across Wales, it is your view that everyone should be done in the same Senedd election, rather than it being done in two halves, for example?
"Q I would like to talk about the 8 million people you reckon are not registered. Some of those people might choose not to register to vote, and the Government’s intention in the Bill is to bring in automatic voter registration. Do you see any issues with that if …..." Lewis Cocking - View Speech
"Q May I briefly follow that up? Is it your opinion, then, that if we are going to have automatic voter registration, everyone should be automatically registered for the same general election?
Vijay Rangarajan: Yes; there should be some uniformity of registration across the UK and for other elections, …..." Lewis Cocking - View Speech
"If the Minister issued new oil and gas licences for the North sea we could produce more of our oil and gas here at home. That would mitigate some of the problems that he has just raised about being over-reliant on oil states...." Lewis Cocking - View Speech
"Q I should declare that when I was a councillor, I did a number of things with Councillor Golds on similar committees at the Local Government Association.
Harry, earlier you mentioned a percentage of people in your data who get turned away at polling stations. Was that all because …..." Lewis Cocking - View Speech
"Q We have not touched on this with this group of witnesses: Richard, what are your views on automatic voter registration? In particular, what are your views on a situation where not everybody would be automatically enrolled at the same time for the same general election, potentially creating two …..." Lewis Cocking - View Speech
"Paying illegal asylum seekers £40,000 to leave the United Kingdom is a kick in the teeth for my hard-working constituents. Why are we not using that money to build a detention centre so that we can detain and immediately deport those who arrive in this country illegally?..." Lewis Cocking - View Speech
"Does the shadow Secretary of State agree that if the Government are going to push forward with auto-enrolment on to the electoral roll, it should at least apply to everybody at the same time, for the same general election? If not, they could be perceived by the British people as …..." Lewis Cocking - View Speech