Baroness Garden now up

Baroness Garden: "Analysis from the Electric Commission shows that certain demographics...are in particular danger of having low reg. nums"

Lord Lexden now up

Lord Lexden: "The whole house agrees that all possible means should be employed to get young people on the electoral register"

Lord Lexden: "The campaign for increased registration needs sustained cross-party support - all parties must...be in this together"

Lord Judd now up

Lord Judd" It is simply unacceptable in the electoral system to have universities where this is being done and some where it isn't"

Lord Young now outlining government position on the amendment - video to follow!

.Janet Royall: I'm grateful to the noble lord, the minister, but I have to say the list of initiatives...are piecemeal"

.Janet Royall: "My Lords I think we have a duty to ensure the maximum amount of students are registered to vote"

.Janet Royall has pushed the amendment to a vote. Back soon with a result!

And the amendment has been passed! 200 content, 189 not content

The amendment now moves back to the House of Commons. Thank you for following tweets tonight, videos of key speeches to follow shortly

Video of Janet Royall's speech introducing her amendment on student voter registration last night youtu.be/dWk0sZYx8uM

Video of Lord Young giving HMG's response to Janet Royall's amendment on student voter registration youtu.be/c3mDIAgRfKI

400K voters who're homeless, in hostels or sofa-surfing shouldn't need access to a printer to participate in democracy Rob Merrick APPG Democracy x.com/Independent/st…

Great to see Electoral Commission call for automatically registering attainers when they receive their NI numbers! bit.ly/2nMhqRa

🔴 Great to see positive step towards recommendation 3 of #MissingMillions on student voter reg, now enshrined in law via HE + Research Bill!

Too late for #GE2017 – but now universities will have to play a role in registering students to vote democraticaudit.com/2017/05/02/too… Bite The Ballot

Our recommendations for party manifestos at #GE2017 - 10 steps for ensuring the UK is a truly inclusive democracy huff.to/2qpaqP3