Question follow-through · 5629
Prisoners: Voting Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of giving prisoners the right to vote. .
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 18 Oct 2024 · 36 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of giving prisoners the right to vote. .
7 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Oct 2024
Answer published
There has been no change to the Government’s position on prisoner voting rights.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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