Paul Flynn – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Flynn on 2016-03-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to paragraph 2.1 of The process for withdrawing from the European Union, CM9216, what procedure will be adopted in the event of votes to remain and to leave being identical during the oncoming referendum on the UK’s EU membership.

Mr David Lidington

The procedure in the unlikely eventuality of a tied vote is not provided for under the European Union Referendum Act 2015, or the Political Parties, Elections and Referendum Act 2000.