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Business, Innovation and Skills: EU Agency Workers Directive (12 Nov 2009)

Jonathan Djanogly: Conservatives did, indeed, campaign for a delay to the agency workers directive's implementation until November 2011, and business was very relieved when the Government conceded to that delay. But, given the regulations' complexity, why are the Government now pandering to trade union demands to push the measures through before the general election?

Bill Presented — Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill: Political Parties and Elections Bill (20 Jul 2009) has video

Jonathan Djanogly: The amendments represent a clarification of the Government's new position—set out this time last week—in relation to exceptions to those who can constitute acceptable donors. In practice, they have been clarified on the Government's own terms, because of the deficiencies in their own amendments last week and not on the basis of any kind of consensus. Once again we were given very...

Bill Presented — Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill: Political Parties and Elections Bill (20 Jul 2009) has video

Jonathan Djanogly: The hon. Gentleman has just gone on at some length as to how this is applicable to companies, but it is my understanding that it never had anything whatever to do with companies. The Minister might like to say something about that in his winding-up speech.

Business, Innovation and Skills: Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (16 Jul 2009) has video

Jonathan Djanogly: I suggest that the Government have not been doing all that they can. Is it not the case that the French and Germans had been facilitating credit for their companies months before we got around to it? Is this not too little, too late?

Political Parties and Elections Bill (Extension of Carry-over): Clause 8 — Declaration as to source of donation (13 Jul 2009)

Jonathan Djanogly: Clause 8 creates a new responsibility for donors to political parties to clarify the source of donations. Following the Government's recent amendments made in the other place, donors giving more than £7,500 will be required to make a declaration of whether another person is providing them with any money or other benefit worth more than £7,500. The impact of the measure will still be...

Political Parties and Elections Bill (Extension of Carry-over): Clause 8 — Declaration as to source of donation (13 Jul 2009)

Jonathan Djanogly: That could most certainly be the case, and that is a good example of some of the problems with the amendments and the underlying provisions. In the same debate in the other place, Lord Campbell-Savours said: "I had a conversation with the Justice Secretary Mr Jack Straw about the matters raised in the next paragraph and he raised exactly these issues with me. Paragraph 2 states: 'The...

Political Parties and Elections Bill (Extension of Carry-over): Clause 8 — Declaration as to source of donation (13 Jul 2009)

Jonathan Djanogly: Yes, my hon. and learned Friend makes a fair point. I will not start weighing up the relative merits and demerits of the points that I have been making, but I hope that they are all relevant. We will need properly to review the Government amendments to consider how things will change. In addition, the parties and the commission would have to create new procedures and devolve additional...

Political Parties and Elections Bill (Extension of Carry-over): Clause 8 — Declaration as to source of donation (13 Jul 2009)

Jonathan Djanogly: Is the hon. Gentleman saying that somebody who decides to go and work abroad and to become non-resident is giving up his right to participation? I think that he said that or came very close to saying it.

Political Parties and Elections Bill (Extension of Carry-over): Clause 8 — Declaration as to source of donation (13 Jul 2009)

Jonathan Djanogly: I do not know what individual associations do. What I am doing is explaining that this will be pretty unworkable without some serious thought going into it, and I do not think I heard anything from the Secretary of State that addressed that.

Political Parties and Elections Bill (Extension of Carry-over): Clause 8 — Declaration as to source of donation (13 Jul 2009)

Jonathan Djanogly: My right hon. Friend makes a very basic, and yet very effective, point that will be reality.

Political Parties and Elections Bill (Extension of Carry-over): Clause 8 — Declaration as to source of donation (13 Jul 2009)

Jonathan Djanogly: I have to say that I never had the opportunity to apply the reasonable excuse defence to these measures, but we will have to do some more thinking about this for the reasons I have just given.

Political Parties and Elections Bill (Extension of Carry-over): Clause 8 — Declaration as to source of donation (13 Jul 2009)

Jonathan Djanogly: My hon. Friend makes an important point, which I shall return to later. The provision will put off people who live abroad—regardless of why they want to live abroad—from becoming engaged in party politics. To that extent, it is an exclusive, rather than an inclusive, set of provisions, and a poor set for that reason. On the overall tax position, I have tried to explain that this...

Political Parties and Elections Bill (Extension of Carry-over): Clause 8 — Declaration as to source of donation (13 Jul 2009)

Jonathan Djanogly: I hope that hon. Members in general will agree that I am trying to advance a reasoned and considered argument, but if the hon. Gentleman just wants to make party political trashy remarks, he can do so; that is up to him. The answer, by the way, is no. We also think that the permissible donor provisions of clause 8 may be an infringement of an individual's right to freedom of expression, as my...

Political Parties and Elections Bill (Extension of Carry-over): Clause 8 — Declaration as to source of donation (13 Jul 2009)

Jonathan Djanogly: May I first support the Secretary of State's kind words about Lord Kingsland, who was a truly fine gentleman? He was caring, charming and a good lawyer; he was always fair in debate and rational in his approach. I have always enjoyed working with Lord Kingsland, who will be sadly missed by colleagues. Our thoughts are with his family. We can see the outline purpose of the Government...

Political Parties and Elections Bill (Extension of Carry-over): Clause 8 — Declaration as to source of donation (13 Jul 2009)

Jonathan Djanogly: The roundabout answer to that is no, but I shall explain why later in my remarks, at which point the hon. Gentleman might like to contribute again. Let me explain why we believe that these provisions will not work. The permissible-donor provisions would impose a three-prong test, which all political parties would have to perform before accepting any political donation. The first...

Political Parties and Elections Bill (Extension of Carry-over): Clause 8 — Declaration as to source of donation (13 Jul 2009)

Jonathan Djanogly: If, after what I have said, the hon. Gentleman will not accept that the individuals concerned, not being tax advisers, might themselves encounter practical difficulties in understanding all this, as a corporate lawyer he is not in touch with Joe Public. Furthermore, given that people's circumstances may change during the four-year period, his original statement may be wrong. The third prong...

Political Parties and Elections Bill (Extension of Carry-over): Clause 8 — Declaration as to source of donation (13 Jul 2009)

Jonathan Djanogly: Not in all contexts—absolutely not. Many non-domiciliaries—those with no significant foreign investments, who are likely to constitute the great majority—will not have given any thought to their domicile status. The only residual concern, if the restriction relates to an actual claim to the remittance basis, is that the claim does not need to be made until the individual...

Political Parties and Elections Bill (Extension of Carry-over) (13 Jul 2009)

Jonathan Djanogly: I think it fair to say that the Minister and I, and our respective teams, have come a long way with this marathon piece of legislation. What was a very weak and partisan Bill became—bit by bit, debate by debate, in both Houses—a Bill that I think we can broadly say was built on consensus. I am afraid, however, that that seems no longer to be the case. Given that we received the...

Human Rights Act 1998 (Meaning of Public Authority) Bill (3 Jul 2009) has video

Jonathan Djanogly: I congratulate the hon. Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore) on his persistence in supporting his cause, although we shall not be supporting him on this occasion. Previous incarnations of this Bill and its subject matter, including the lengthy deliberations on the definition of a "public authority" by the Joint Committee on Human Rights, have often focused on whether private care homes come under...

Human Rights Act 1998 (Meaning of Public Authority) Bill (3 Jul 2009) has video

Jonathan Djanogly: I think that this Bill significantly extends the issue, and we would certainly want to see a full impact assessment were it to be taken any further. When the Human Rights Act was passed in 1998, it did not seek to specify an exact list of what constituted a public authority. A large number of cases since then have been involved with privately run care homes that are subcontracted to provide...