Lord Rennard

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their response to the Electoral Commission’s conclusion in its report UK Parliamentary General Election 2015: Campaign spending report, that the "Commission should be provided with investigative powers and sanctions...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they will publish details of the recommendations for potential changes to electoral legislation by Sir Eric Pickles MP.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the cost of the deliveries of election material by the Royal Mail for all prospective parliamentary candidates across the UK in the 2014 European Parliamentary elections.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the cost of the delivery of poll cards by the Royal Mail for all prospective parliamentary candidates across the UK in the 2015 General Election.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the cost of the deliveries of election material by the Royal Mail for all prospective parliamentary candidates across the UK in the 2015 General Election, and how the delivery charges were calculated.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total cost of conducting the 2014 European Parliament elections.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the cost of additional security provided during the course of the 2015 General Election.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total cost to the public purse of conducting the 2015 General Election.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the completeness of the electoral register as at 1 December 2015, broken down by (1) the UK in total, (2) country, (3) local authority and (4) constituency.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of research from the University of East Anglia forecasting that the introduction of Individual Voter Registration will lead to a decline in levels of electoral registration.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they have taken to ascertain how many people shown as having voted on the marked register for the General Election on 7 May 2015 were on the electoral register at that time solely by virtue of the household based...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to gather data from Electoral Registration Officers about levels of electoral registration as at 1 December 2015, and whether that process will differ from practice in previous years.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will publish data showing the number of entries on the electoral register as at 1 December 2015; and if so, whether they will break down that information by (1) country, (2) constituency and (3) local authority...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to introduce a limit on the size of personal, or company, donations to political parties.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have, if any, to reduce the costs of government special advisers.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the estimated annual cost of their special advisers.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to limit spending in particular constituencies during a general election campaign to prevent any imbalance in the funding available to candidates unduly affecting election outcomes.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the annual effect of the planned reductions to Policy Development Grants on political parties' funding for policy development.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bridges of Headley on 21 September (HL1901) whether they have (1) ascertained the views of, and (2) obtained the support of, (a) the Scottish Parliament, (b) the Welsh Assembly, (c) th...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bridges of Headley on 3 August (HL1680), whether their discussions with local government and the devolved administrations about bringing forward the full implementation of individual e...