Written questions

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 ...