Business of the House

Alan Brown Excerpts
Thursday 13th June 2019

(5 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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On the face of it, there is clearly a very serious issue here, which has been highlighted in the past. It is very good that the Minister has intervened in this way to make sure that action will be taken.

Alan Brown Portrait Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (SNP)
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On the day of the European elections, my constituent, Christine Fletcher, had to rush her unwell daughter to hospital for a brain scan. Christine could not then get a proxy vote, because she was not the person who was incapacitated by the medical emergency, yet as far back as 2015 the Electoral Commission recommended an extension of the grounds for proxy voting to cover such circumstances. May we get a Government statement on when they will adopt such a sensible, simple measure, so that people such as Christine do not have additional stress when they are dealing with an already stressful situation?

Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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The best place that I can direct the hon. Gentleman to is questions to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, which are on 20 June.