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Electoral Administration Bill

I thought that I would sit here and agree with everything that the hon. Gentleman said, but I disagree with what he said about the Electoral Commission. The Electoral Commission is not there to police; it is there to advise and to set out what the law is. It will not get involved in any way in policing accusations of fraud or questions that have been raised. That is for individual returning officers. Where the system falls down is that there is no way of controlling the actions of an errant, or even corrupt, electoral returning officer. That is where we need to strengthen matters.