Part of Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill – in the House of Commons at 6:00 pm on 8 March 2004.
I can tell Mr. Bercow that the draft statutory instruments that we have already published, and on which we consulted the Electoral Commission, specify that although the elections will be all-postal, there will still be opportunities for people to leave their postal votes at designated drop-off points in a local authority area. I suspect that proposed new subsection (4) in Lords amendment No. 1 refers to that means of supplementing the postal system.