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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Democratic Participation. Chair: @NickyMorgan01. Secretariat: @BiteTheBallot. Email: [email protected]

 UK Parliament
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Joined February 2016
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Pleased to announce the release of the '5 Steps Forward' report, which was produced by @ClearViewStats: bit.ly/5-steps-forward #5Steps
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Our recommendations for party manifestos at #GE2017 - 10 steps for ensuring the UK is a truly inclusive democracy huff.to/2qpaqP3
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Too late for #GE2017 – but now universities will have to play a role in registering students to vote democraticaudit.com/2017/05/… @BiteTheBallot
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🔴 Great to see positive step towards recommendation 3 of #MissingMillions on student voter reg, now enshrined in law via HE + Research Bill!
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Great to see @ElectoralCommUK call for automatically registering attainers when they receive their NI numbers! bit.ly/2nMhqRa
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John Bird@johnbirdswords17 Mar 2017
400K voters who're homeless, in hostels or sofa-surfing shouldn't need access to a printer to participate in democracy @Rob_Merrick @appgDP teapaw.org/Independent/status/840…
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Government accused of obstructing the homeless from voting while spending millions on helping rich expats register ind.pn/2mLYzZ6
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Video of Lord Young giving HMG's response to @LabourRoyall's amendment on student voter registration youtu.be/c3mDIAgRfKI
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Video of @LabourRoyall's speech introducing her amendment on student voter registration last night youtu.be/dWk0sZYx8uM
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The amendment now moves back to the House of Commons. Thank you for following tweets tonight, videos of key speeches to follow shortly
And the amendment has been passed! 200 content, 189 not content
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.@LabourRoyall has pushed the amendment to a vote. Back soon with a result!
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.@LabourRoyall: "My Lords I think we have a duty to ensure the maximum amount of students are registered to vote"
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.@LabourRoyall: I'm grateful to the noble lord, the minister, but I have to say the list of initiatives...are piecemeal"
Lord Young now outlining government position on the amendment - video to follow!
Lord Judd" It is simply unacceptable in the electoral system to have universities where this is being done and some where it isn't"
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Lord Judd now up
Lord Lexden: "The campaign for increased registration needs sustained cross-party support - all parties must...be in this together"
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Lord Lexden: "The whole house agrees that all possible means should be employed to get young people on the electoral register"
Lord Lexden now up
Baroness Garden: "Analysis from the Electric Commission shows that certain demographics...are in particular danger of having low reg. nums"
Baroness Garden now up
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