[Fiona Mactaggart: ... there might be a case for individual voter registration. I would not support its introduction universally at the moment, because when it was introduced in Northern Ireland the number of people registered to vote went down by 10 percent. That is not a tolerable consequence.]

Dr Julian Lewis: The question that the hon. Lady must ask is whether the 10 percent of people who were lost from that list were real people or fictional people.

[For Julian's speech in this Debate, click here.]