Monday 10th July 2023

(10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Viscount Stansgate Portrait Viscount Stansgate (Lab)
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Can the Minister reassure the House that the Government will take steps to make a record of electors who go to sign their name at a recall petition and are refused for lack of voter identification?

Baroness Scott of Bybrook Portrait Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con)
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My Lords, the Government have made it very clear that they will look at all the data from any petition or election, as they did in May this year.