Local Government: Elections
Commons · Question 29500 · Tabled 6 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Lee Anderson
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the conversations and negotiations which she had in order to determine which elections were to be postponed.
Answer
Answered by Jim McMahon, 18 Feb 2025
The Secretary of State will not publish these details. I wrote to councils who requested for their local elections to be postponed from May 2025 to May 2026 to inform them of the outcome of the government's decision. The bar for postponement was high and ...