§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the hon. Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission how many allegations of electoral fraud in the elections on 10 June have been notified to the Electoral Commission. [179225]
§ Mr. ViggersThe investigation and prosecution of allegations of electoral fraud are matters for the police and the Crown Prosecution Service, and these are not required to be notified to the Electoral Commission. However, I understand that the Commission is aware of a number of such allegations, and will be liaising with the Crown Prosecution Service to obtain details of all allegations of electoral fraud reported to the Service in the four regions where all-postal pilots were held, as part of its statutory evaluation of those pilots. The Commission will also examine issues of electoral fraud in its wider statutory report on the administration of the European parliamentary elections.