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This is a report on the Committee Stage of the Political Parties and Elections Bill 2007-08 produced in response to a recommendation of the Modernisation Committee in its report on The Legislative Process (HC 1097, 2005-06). The Bill has been reintroduced as Bill 4 of 2008-09 and is awaiting a date for report stage in the Commons.
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This Research Paper looks at the Political Parties and Elections Bill 2008-09, it includes impacts on the Electoral Commission and political donations and expenditure.
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The Representation of the People Act 2000 enabled local authorities to pilot a range of new electoral procedures. Details of the different types of pilot schemes that have been run since 2000 are given, including the pilots held at the May 2007 local elections.
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This Note examines the Commission's recommendations and subsequent consideration of the report by the House of Commons. Details of the Government's response to the report are also given.
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Election timetables. House of Commons Library Research Paper 07/31.
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This note examines the recent developments concerning loans to the main political parties and the provision in the Electoral Administration Act 2006 that in future all such loans should be treated in the same way as donations.
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This Note summarises the Standing Committee debates and changes made to the Bill in the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
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The Power Inquiry was established and funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust to investigate why there has been a decline in participation in formal politics and to make proposals to reverse this trend. The report of the Power Inquiry was published on 27 February 2006.
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This note considers all-postal ballots which have been used at a number of elections in recent years; postal voting on demand is not discussed. This note examines the powers available to local authorities to conduct all-postal ballots and recent developments which have seen pilot all-postal ballots in four regions at the European Parliamentary elections in June 2004 and in the referendum in the North East for a regional assembly.
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The Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill. (Bill 23 of 2004/05). House of Commons Library Research Paper 05/22.
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This note looks at the present registration process, its security and proposals for change to the system.
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This note summarises how the project for building a new Scottish Parliament progressed from the initial discussion stages in May 1997 to its completion and royal opening in October 2004. The accounts are based on the sequel of events set out in Lord Fraser's Holyrood Inquiry.
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This note looks at the background to the appointment of the Richard Commission and its terms of reference; the conclusions reached by the Commission and reaction to the publication of the report on 31 March 2004.
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