Political Parties and Elections Bill

Part of Orders of the Day – in the House of Commons at 7:43 pm on 20 October 2008.

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Photo of Andrew Tyrie Andrew Tyrie Conservative, Chichester 7:43, 20 October 2008

The hon. Gentleman has correctly quoted from Sir Hayden Phillips's report. I participated throughout these negotiations, and can tell him that Sir Hayden commissioned a paper on the arms race that drew pretty much the same conclusions as the Pinto-Duschinsky work and that Conservative Members have asked for it to be published. That work was commissioned after Sir Hayden's first report had been published, and I am reasonably confident that he would not have come to the same conclusions had it already been before him.