Gordon Banks: ...Secretary of State would welcome the arguments made in such a process and use those to his best interests in the future. He could renegotiate and revisit the consultation exercise and work force vote. That would be his prerogative, but it would have to be done in a way that was constructive and showed improvements on any previously rejected proposals; otherwise he would be wasting...
Nigel Dodds: ...day, so there seemed to be an inordinately long campaign for local government elections compared with others. Obviously it is important that the timetable is synchronised and that issues such as postal and proxy votes are properly managed so that people applying for them receive one package through the post containing the necessary forms and one containing the three ballot papers. I am...
Mark Tami: The hon. Gentleman has not mentioned one problem with holding different elections on the same day. Many who apply for a postal vote for the Westminster election will assume that they will automatically receive a postal vote for every election, but in fact, they will not, because they need to apply separately for a postal vote for the other elections.
Gordon Banks: ...position, given that it was stated in their party’s manifesto in 2007. The Debt Relief Act 2010 has a sunset clause, which expires on 7 June 2011, which none of the current coalition parties voted against. Indeed, the Minister with responsibility for postal affairs has voted for sunset clauses in the past. In the Budget of June this year, regulatory sunset clauses were announced—a...
Bob Neill: It will be the responsibility of the levying authority to cover the cost of running a business rate supplement ballot. It is intended that a business rate supplement vote would be held via a postal ballot. A successful outcome will be where there is a simple majority of those who have voted in favour both in terms of the number of properties liable for the business rate supplement and the...
David Willetts: ...Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Mr Davey), cannot be present, but he is involved in the Committee stage of the Postal Services Bill. As part of the development of our policy on postal services, we have published a document to secure the post office network in the digital age. The hon. Member for Walthamstow...
Baroness Wilcox: My honourable friend the Minister for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs has made the following Statement. On 13 October, the Government published the Postal Services Bill. This Bill will safeguard the universal postal service and secure a sustainable future for Royal Mail and the Post Office. We promised at that time that we would shortly bring forward a more detailed...
Edward Davey: On 13 October the Government published the Postal Services Bill. This Bill will safeguard the universal postal service and secure a sustainable future for Royal Mail and the Post Office. We promised at that time that we would shortly bring forward a more detailed statement on the future of the post office network. At the Second Reading of the Postal Services Bill, we announced £1.34 billion...
Lord Greaves: To ask Her Majesty's Government , further to the written answer by Lord McNally on 21 October (HL2419), what action they will take to ensure that 100 per cent of personal identifiers for postal voters will be verified in the elections on 5 May 2011 for local authorities in England and for the Scottish Parliament and Welsh assembly, and for the proposed referendum on the voting system.
Amendments made: 22, page 30, line 41, leave out 'regulations' and insert 'postal voting provisions'. 23, page 31, line 8, leave out 'regulations' and insert 'postal voting provisions'. 24, page 36, line 29, leave out 'regulations' and insert 'postal voting provisions'. 25, page 48, line 15, leave out 'and Wales or Scotland'. 26, page 48, line 17, leave out 'regulations' and insert 'postal...
...- "(5) Where an envelope opened in accordance with paragraph (1) contains a declaration of identity (whether separate or not), the counting officer must place a mark in the marked copy of the postal voters list or the proxy postal voters list in a place corresponding to the number of the elector to denote that a postal vote has been returned.(6) A mark made under paragraph (5) must be...
Mark Harper: ...people have tried to make changes that would have a wider policy impact and that should be made elsewhere. For example, we had a debate on the appropriate age at which people should be able to vote. There was a general view on the Government Benches, even among those who support that provision for elections in general, that this Bill was not the right place in which to make those...
...' and insert '2010'. Amendment 85, page 227, line 9,, leave out '(9)' and insert '(10)'. Amendment 86, page 227,, leave out lines 22 to 25. Amendment 87, page 228, line 8, at end insert- '"proxy postal voters list" includes the list kept under paragraph 8(6) of Schedule3 to the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2010;";'. Amendment 88, page 228, line 27, leave out...
...Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2009/1741) or Part 3 of Schedule 2 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/454) (issue and receipt of postal ballot papers);'. Amendment 159, page 255, line 25, at end insert- (0) rule 16A (corresponding number list);'. Amendment 160, page 255, line 36, at end insert- ( ) a provision referred to...
Part 1A — Postal voting
Michael Connarty: ...of the proposal will work. I see the Minister smiling. The other issue is that this is another Lib Dem promise. We know that their promises are worth absolutely nothing, particularly to those who voted for them. That is similarly the case with regards the question raised by the hon. Member for Angus (Mr Weir). To say that there will be no closure programme is the stupidest thing I have...
Lord Naseby: ...the police have investigated, they do report? We have the case of Bristol East, where the newly elected Labour Member has been cautioned by the police for the use she made of-it is reported- the postal votes on her Twitter, and, rightly, that is fraud under Section 63 of the Elections Act 1983.
Edward Davey: ..., and I can say that we have that good management with Moya Greene. The real challenges of the digital world, as the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton South East (Mr McFadden) said, apply to all postal administrations across the world. It is the deep challenges that face Royal Mail and the Post Office that make the position of the Opposition at best incredible and at worst downright...
Andrew Stephenson: Although I welcome the coalition's commitment to introduce individual voter registration, many Members across the House remain concerned about on-demand postal and proxy votes, which we still feel are too open to abuse. Will my right hon. Friend undertake to look at the possibility of reintroducing restrictions to those entitled to register for postal votes?
Gary Streeter: ...downloaded from its website. In its report on the 2010 general election, the Commission said that the election timetable leaves insufficient time for overseas voters to receive and return their postal votes, and recommended that the Government should undertake a thorough review of the timetable for UK general elections.