European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill
9:45 am
Mr Teddy Taylor (Rochford and Southend East, Conservative)
Does my hon. Friend agree that if we rush the Bill through it could cost an awful lot of money? Has he seen in the Electoral Commission's review—I have read all the papers, which I received this morning—the astonishing statement that e-mail costs will be £20 for every vote cast? If we add that up for the whole country, the extra £20 for every vote cast by e-mail will involve an awful lot of money at a time when the Chancellor of the Exchequer is borrowing so much that it is becoming frightening.