New Clause 20 — Combination of polls

Part of Speaker's Statement – in the House of Commons at 5:00 pm on 25 October 2010.

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Photo of Mark Harper Mark Harper The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office 5:00, 25 October 2010

No, I do not think there is, actually. People are perfectly capable of laying out the prospectus on which they stand and the important issues on which they are campaigning in the elections to the Welsh Assembly, Northern Ireland Assembly and Scottish Parliament, and also joining the yes or no campaign on a voting system for this Parliament. That is not very complicated at all, and our voters will show us that we are underrating them if we take that view. Incidentally, next week, Americans will vote in an extraordinary number of elections-I shall pursue that thought only briefly, Mr Evans, for fear that you will rule me out of order-and they are perfectly capable of doing that, in the same way as voters here are perfectly capable of voting in two or three sets of elections next year.