To ask the hon. Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission if he will make a statement on the rights of disabled voters to vote by proxy. [129580]

This is not a matter for the Speaker's Committee, but I understand that a person who by reason of blindness or other physical incapacity cannot reasonably be expected to go in person to the allotted polling station or to vote unaided there, has a statutory right to vote by proxy for an indefinite or particular period.The hon. Member will be aware that all voters, disabled or not, are entitled to request a postal vote.