Political Parties and Elections Bill
10:00 am
Michael Wills (Minister of State, Ministry of Justice; North Swindon, Labour)
I shall respond briefly to those comments. As reference has been made to the informal proceedings, in keeping with the spirit in which the Government approached the informal proceedings setting the programme motion, we were determined to do everything we possibly could to accommodate the timetable of Opposition spokespeople. They had a certain amount of confusion about their diaries and we did everything that we could to accommodate them. We shall continue in that spirit. If there is a need to find further time, we shall do everything possible. The subject is important and we want to debate it properly. We would not want the Opposition to be constrained by a lack of time for tabling amendments, if we can possibly avoid it.