Question follow-through · 8564
Elections: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had recent discussions with the Electoral Commission on the use of photo ID issued by the Ministry of Defence by veterans when voting in elections.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 18 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had recent discussions with the Electoral Commission on the use of photo ID issued by the Ministry of Defence by veterans when voting in elections.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Oct 2024
Answer published
On the 15th of October the government laid the statutory instrument required to add the Veteran Card to the list of photographic identifications accepted in polling stations as voter ID, thereby fulfilling a key manifesto commitment.The Ministry consulted...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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