division_name: Overseas Electors Bill: Money
motion: <p class="indent" pid="a568.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Overseas Electors Bill, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable under any other Act out of money so provided.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a573.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;an increase not exceeding &#163;10,000 in any financial year prior to the financial year after the financial year in which a Minister of the Crown lays before the House of Commons a report on the expected increases arising from the Act and any increase thereafter&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a573.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;in any financial year prior to the financial year after the financial year&#8221;?</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a574.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;in any financial year prior to the financial year after the financial year in which a Minister of the Crown lays before the Commons a report&#8221;?</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a574.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;urgent and positive Government action&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a575.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;urgent and positive Government action&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a575.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;inadequate performance by under-resourced elections office staff&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a575.1/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we have collectively been concerned for the health and well-being of all of our members&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a575.1/14" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Increasing the number of British citizens overseas who are eligible to be registered to vote will add strain to already stretched resources of electoral administrators, in terms of volume and complexity of registration applications, requiring verification of identities and eligibility of applicants who have not lived in the UK for some time.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a575.1/17" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Most of the costs of the new policy would be incurred by the local authorities in the first instance&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a580.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="a580.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 259, Noes 296.</p>