division_name: Bill Presented &#8212; Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill &#8212; Electoral Registration and Administration Bill
motion: <p class="" pid="c.1172.3/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="c.1172.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">The Electoral Registration and Administration Bill will tackle electoral fraud by speeding up the introduction of individual electoral registration&#8212;that is, requiring electors to register individually rather than by households. In doing so, we will move towards a system in which individuals have to provide information to enable their application to be verified. That will modernise our electoral registration system, facilitate the move to online registration and make it more convenient for people to register to vote. We want to tackle electoral fraud, increase the number of people registered to vote and improve the integrity of the electoral register.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="c.1187.0/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from &#8220;That&#8221; to the end of the Question and add:</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="c.1187.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;this House, whilst affirming its support for a complete and accurate electoral register and a move to a system of individual electoral registration (IER), declines to give a Second Reading to the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill because whilst the Political Parties and Elections Act 2009 received cross-party</p>
  
  <p pid="c.1243.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put,</i> That the amendment be made.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="c.1243.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="c.1243.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 223, Noes 283.</p>