Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

If the hon. Gentleman is going to quote the Electoral Commission, he should quote it in full. It wanted to consider in more detail the implications of his amendment for the management of the count process and, in particular, the time required to conduct the count. It did say that it saw no insurmountable practical barriers to making the information available ““in due course””, but it did not have information about the impact on the count process and the declaration of the result. Missing out the words ““in due course”” gave a misleading impression of the Electoral Commission's views.