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 DAT0006 - UK-EU data adequacy

Written Evidence May. 16 2024

Inquiry: UK-EU data adequacy
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: European Affairs Committee

Found: The IPA 2016 introduced transparency and new safeguards, including the requirement that warrants be

Select Committee
Logically
 FON0068 - The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology

Written Evidence May. 09 2024

Inquiry: The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Communications and Digital Committee

Found: New Zealand to help them identify and manage state-level influence operations, with a focus on electoral

Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 08 May 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Jo Stevens (Lab - Cardiff Central) is a bit like the Conservative councillor in Sunderland who set up anti-20 mph Facebook groups while campaigning - Speech Link
2: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) Secretary of State agree that Governments at both ends of the M4 need to recommit to integrity and transparency - Speech Link
3: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) China has now hacked the data of defence personnel, the Electoral Commission and various other public - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Defence - Tue 07 May 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) now that the Ukrainians have certainty that that aid will be there, come what may and regardless of electoral - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) can be placed the hack of the defence payroll discussed earlier today, which follows the hack of our electoral - Speech Link
3: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) is also about us as parliamentarians taking our responsibilities appropriately, and about creating transparency - Speech Link
4: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) I am glad to say that at the end of a year’s campaigning, we did achieve something of that kind. - Speech Link
5: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) relation to artillery shells, I do not want to keep banging on about this point, but the more there is transparency - Speech Link

Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Bill: Stage 1 - Thu 02 May 2024

Mentions:
1: None election campaigns, including the definitions of notional expenditure, overseas spending and third-party campaigning - Speech Link
2: Whitfield, Martin (Lab - South Scotland) The Electoral Commission has said that it is not the role of electoral administrators to advise candidates - Speech Link
3: None more difficult for a campaign and would increase the onus on a campaign, but it would give people more transparency - Speech Link
4: None We have discussed that with the Electoral Commission quite a bit. - Speech Link
5: Dunbar, Jackie (SNP - Aberdeen Donside) We have heard from other witnesses that full transparency is needed when those decisions are taken—someone - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Security in the Western Balkans - Thu 02 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Melton) The current wave of tension in northern Kosovo exploded when Srpska Lista orchestrated an electoral boycott - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) Would he be more appalled by my absence from campaigning or the debate?” - Speech Link
3: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) Corruption, electoral fraud, the state of law—these are all things that the Government are trying to - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) towards a so-called foreign agents Act, mirroring developments elsewhere and again removing democratic transparency - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Bank of England (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 02 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Viscount Chandos (Lab - Life peer) I profoundly believe that transparency should be at the heart of public bodes generally; even the intelligence - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho (XB - Life peer) I personally believe that more could be done to keep the transparency and the levels of trust high in - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) It is a demonstration that campaigning works that, in 2021, the Government’s target of reaching net zero - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) level in politics not to seek to manipulate issues such as interest rates and inflation when there is electoral - Speech Link
5: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) However, crucially, the Government are confident that this does not undermine the transparency of these - Speech Link

Select Committee
Fourth Report - Lobbying and Influence: post-legislative scrutiny of the Lobbying Act 2014 and related matters

Report May. 02 2024

Committee: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Found: This lobbying activity was found not to have breached the Transparency of Lobbying, Non- Party Campaigning

Parliamentary Research
Senegal: 2024 presidential election - CBP-9990
Apr. 30 2024

Found: Contents Summary 4 1 Background 6 1.1 Election date ca lled 6 1.2 Postponing of election 6 1.3 Electoral

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Home Office

Apr. 29 2024

Source Page: Rwanda: country policy and information notes
Document: (PDF)

Found: from various NGOs54 noted ‘Although the 2017 election was declared free and fair by the National Electoral