"My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Rennard, posed a question: do we want another referendum? Of course we do not, because, in 2011, there was a referendum where we asked the people whether they wanted to fiddle the franchise and mess around with the voting system, and the people said …..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"That is exactly the point I was making, and I gave a list of the things you can do at 18. Let us move on.
We need to have this review not just because we must be fair to children and adults but because we need to be clear where …..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"My Lords, it is a pleasure to lead this debate; I have the first two amendments in this group. Turning first to my Amendment 8, I think that registering to vote a year before the possibility of voting would give election officials sufficient time to draw up the register at …..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"I cannot see how any of my proposals would be discriminatory in any way, shape or form because they provide that everybody would be given—not have to apply for but be given—a national insurance number, not at 16 but at 14, which is the age at which the Government propose …..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"My noble friend has correctly highlighted how the process actually works if you go on the Government’s website, and so many of the district councils or other local councils which are registration authorities have their own skin in that same machine. When you type in your name, date of birth …..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"My Lords, it is late, so I will be brief, especially as the new guidance in the Companion tells me to be so. I was confused by the noble Lord, Lord Rennard; he first stood up to excoriate me and then his Amendment 50 proposed something like the same. Nevertheless, …..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"My Lords, we discussed this scheme in the Chamber some months ago, so I will not repeat all the points here or be so churlish not to recognise that any help for the materials economy that employs so many people—especially the chemical industry, which in turn produces the raw materials …..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"I declare an interest as I am in the fertiliser industry, and I agree with just about every word my noble friend has said. The consequences of the lack of ammonia production in this country are not just harming our farmers, bad though that is, but are reducing the ability …..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"My Lords, I suppose we should be used by now to a Government who say one thing and do another, expecting everybody else to play by one set of rules while they do something else. This week, in a move that surprised nobody, we learned that the annual costs of …..." Lord Fuller - View Speech