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Lord Dodds of Duncairn (DUP)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 14 September 2026

Debate

Voter Identification (Amendment of List of Specified Documents) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026

Contribution

That is precisely my point. I do not argue with the need to uprate them, for the reasons that the Minister has set out, but why has it taken so long? Why has it been 21 years since there was any change in these limits, given the massive increase in costs that there has been? Can she give a guarantee that, as with the forms of identity, costs will be kept under periodic review and that we will not go for another 20 years without any change in the spending limits?

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