division_name: Trade Union Bill &#8212; Provision for electronic balloting: review and piloting scheme
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b1472.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Voting is a uniquely difficult question for computer science: the system must verify your eligibility; know whether you have already voted; and allow for audits and recounts. Yet it must always preserve your anonymity and privacy.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1476.5/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;tighten the rules around taxpayer-funded paid facility time for union representatives.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1485.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I cannot for the life of me understand why the Government are arguing against a system that the Conservative Party felt was good enough for the selection of a candidate for London Mayor&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="2016-03-16">16 March</phrase> 2016; Vol. 769, c. 1861.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1486.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Government are saying that the costs should be transparently known and proportionate to the benefits&#8230;However, this is fully secured&#8230;through Clause 12. There is no need for the reserve powers contained in Clause 13.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="2016-03-16">16 March</phrase> 2016; Vol. 769, c. 1905.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1486.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If, however, the public body is a local authority, it has its own democratic mandate and is answerable to its own electorate for the cost. Given the immense financial pressures now on local authorities, do we really think that they are incapable of making this judgment?&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="2016-03-16">16 March</phrase> 2016; Vol. 769, c. 1906.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1486.1/14" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;make regulations that affect facility time in the health services of Scotland and Wales, which are wholly devolved and under the control of Health Ministers in those countries&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1486.1/16" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;health policy and the management of the NHS in those countries will remain&#8230;in the control of the Governments&#8221; &#8211;&#8211;[Official Report, Trade Union Public Bill Committee, <phrase class="date" code="2016-10-22">22 October</phrase> 2015; c. 347.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b1486.1/18" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Having only just debated Evel last week, it seems that the UK Government now want to dictate to devolved administrations&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b1496.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b1496.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 312, Noes 260.</p>