Part of Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill – in the House of Lords at 4:30 pm on 15 December 2010.
Before the noble Lord seeks to answer that question, this debate has got to a stage where people seem to have forgotten that a statute dealing with referenda was passed by the previous Administration. It deals with all of these questions in considerable detail. There are some additional questions because as time has gone on more difficulties have emerged-for example, in relation to the internet-but there are already considerable provisions in the law about that. It is important to remember that this debate should be about this particular Bill and its particular circumstances.