Schedule 1
Political Parties and Elections Bill
9:30 am
Michael Wills (Minister of State, Ministry of Justice; North Swindon, Labour)
Of course I understand all the concerns that have been raised here. I hope to reassure the Committee that it will not be necessary to press amendment No. 118 to a Division, but if my remarks do not reassure the Committee I am perfectly happy to look at this issue again. However, we have already looked at it quite carefully.
Nobody wants to pass into law something that would make politicians liable to be needlessly subjected to sanctions for what are genuine oversights. My hon. Friend the Member for Battersea gave some good examples of how such oversights might happen and to make politicians liable for them is certainly not the intention of this measure.