Schedule 1
Political Parties and Elections Bill
7:45 pm
Jonathan Djanogly (Shadow Minister, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; Huntingdon, Conservative)
The Minister said that he was concerned that the impact of the amendments could be that the Electoral Commission would have to take a faster decision than it otherwise would, which could lead to a bad decision. I take his point, but I have tried to address that issue by saying that the commission would have the right to go back to the magistrate to request a further 14 days, and I would not have a problem with that being a recurrent right, on the basis that the commission would have to justify its wish to keep the documents. For the moment, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.