Written evidence to be reported to the House
Political Parties and Elections Bill
12:00 pm
Jonathan Djanogly (Shadow Minister, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; Huntingdon, Conservative)
Right. That is a fitting point on which to start. In terms of size, schedule 1 takes up well over half of the Bill, so it is an important part. There is some confusion about who actually prepared or wanted what has now become schedule 1. Some of it clearly comes from the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, some seems to have been proposed by the Electoral Commission and some seems to have been proposed by the Ministry of Justice. It might be helpful if you could go briefly through the schedule and identify the new powers, and say who proposed them.