Electoral Registration
Debate between Sam Gyimah and Siobhain McDonagh(9 years, 10 months ago)
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Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham and Morden) (Lab)
Can the Minister identify any case in the last 30 years of wrongful registration? Is this not a red herring?
Mr Gyimah
IER was the policy of your party to make the electoral process secure. The Electoral Commission has identified 16 local authorities at risk of electoral fraud. Just because you have not been able to point to it, it does not mean fraud is not happening. That is the point.
The same Labour party that introduced IER is now seeking to disown it. It is the same Labour party that said our long-term economic plan would lead to the disappearance of 1 million jobs. [Interruption.] Instead, 1,000 new jobs have been created every day of this Parliament. It said that reforming education maintenance allowance would increase the number of young people not in education, employment or training. [Interruption.] Instead, we have seen the biggest drop in the number of NEETs since records began.