Clause 4 - Electoral commission report
European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill
3:30 pm
Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath, Conservative)
I have challenged the wording in the Bill, which states
''publish . . . as they think fit.''
There may be other ways of expressing that, by saying ''in two months'', for example, but the wording in the Bill is far too wide.
The Government are pushing the Bill through with indecent haste, and the House ought to have a chance to debate the report in a more generous time frame.