Clause 13
Political Parties and Elections Bill
11:15 am
Alan Reid (Shadow Minister, Scottish and Northern Ireland Affairs; Argyll and Bute, Liberal Democrat)
I can give the hon. Lady an example of an occurrence in my own constituency during the last local and Scottish elections. The postal votes are sent out by the returning officer, but because the Scottish parliamentary constituency and our local council constituency areas did not match up, it meant that returning officers were returning postal votes to a different local authority area from that in which they operated, which caused some confusion. This new clause will streamline that process.