Local Government: Elections
Commons · Question 29499 · Tabled 6 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Lee Anderson
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy that local authority areas which have had elections postponed in May 2025 will have elections in May 2026.
Answer
Answered by Jim McMahon, 17 Feb 2025
We have postponed local authority elections from May 2025 to May 2026 only, where it is crucial to do so in order to ensure that we can reorganise local government and deliver devolution as quickly as possible.For those areas which are part of the Devolut...