Clause 7
Political Parties and Elections Bill
4:30 pm
Eleanor Laing (Shadow Minister, Justice; Epping Forest, Conservative)
I do not wish to take up much of the Committee’s time on this matter, as we dealt with most of the principles of political involvement of commissioners when we considered amendments to the preceding clauses this morning. I simply want to put on the record that I agree with what the Minister just said. It is right that there should be restrictions, and we must make a distinction between those on the commission who are representatives of the political world and those who are not. I think that that distinction is clearly made in the clause, which we support.