Electronic Voting
Justice
Eleanor Laing (Shadow Minister, Justice; Epping Forest, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the budget is for work on remote electronic voting over the next two years.
Michael Wills (Minister of State, Ministry of Justice; North Swindon, Labour)
Detailed budgets for future years have not yet been specifically allocated. Further work on remote electronic voting will be funded as necessary from existing budgets agreed for Electoral Modernisation, subject to ministerial and HM Treasury approval. The Government are currently taking stock of the previous work on remote e-voting, including the experience gained in earlier pilots, and the responses to the consultation on election day, to inform the way forward.