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Mr Shazad Anwar And The Electoral Registers In Pendle And Burnley

EDM number 166 in 2005-06, proposed by Gordon Prentice on 23/05/2005.

That this House recalls that the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidate for Pendle in the May election, Mr Shazad Anwar, repeatedly told voters that he lived locally with his wife, Shaista, at 34 Kibble Grove, Reedley, omitting any mention in his innumerable election leaflets that the current Pendle electoral register also lists Afrasaib Anwar, his brother and Farzana Kauser and Rizwana Kauser, his sisters, at that address and also at 50-52 Grey Street in the Burnley electoral register; notes that, when this came to light, Mr Anwar told the local press on 29th April that it was a mistake and that his father must have returned the Burnley form without omitting their names; further notes that Afrasaib Anwar and Rizwana Kauser appear on last year's Pendle register too and again on the Burnley one along with Farzana Kauser; further notes his statement to the press that his two sisters and brother live with him and his wife and they would not be voting twice; reminds Mr Anwar, a practising solicitor, that it is an offence to certify on an electoral registration form that people are living at an address when they are not; urges the police and Pendle's returning officer, Mr Stephen Barnes, to investigate the matter with expedition; supports the Electoral Commission's recommendation for individual voter registration as a necessary first step to clean up elections and restore confidence in the integrity of the ballot; and calls on the Government to bring forward the proposed Electoral Administration Bill as a matter of urgency.

This motion has been signed by a total of 14 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Gordon Prentice23/05/2005PendleLabourProposed
Jim Dobbin24/05/2005Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
Graham Stringer24/05/2005Manchester, BlackleyLabourSeconded
Ann Cryer24/05/2005KeighleyLabourSeconded
Brian Jenkins25/05/2005TamworthLabourSeconded
Paul Flynn25/05/2005Newport WestLabourSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins26/05/2005Luton NorthLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn26/05/2005Islington NorthLabourSigned
Stephen Pound08/06/2005Ealing NorthLabourSigned
David Chaytor08/06/2005Bury NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson09/06/2005Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Janet Anderson09/06/2005Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned
David Borrow09/06/2005South RibbleLabourSigned
John McDonnell04/07/2005Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned

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