§ 27. Mr. McLoughlinTo ask the hon. Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, if he will make a statement on the Commission's research on postal vote arrangements. [122059]
§ Mr. ViggersThe Electoral Commission published a report on the law and practice in relation to postal and proxy voting in March. The Commission's evaluation of the pilot schemes run at the local government elections in England in May, including those schemes that involved all-postal voting, will be submitted to Government on 31 July 2003.