Written questions

Mayor of Greater Manchester: Elections

Lords · Question HL1220 · Tabled 23 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 6 Jul 2026

Question

Asked by Lord Hayward

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage on 16 June (HL Deb col 227), what the total cost of the Greater Manchester mayoralty by-election will be.

Answer

Answered by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage, 6 Jul 2026

The costs of mayoral elections are met by local authorities and are not held centrally, with each authority responsible for managing and retaining its own election cost data. The Government is therefore unable to provide this information.Our estimate of t...