Question follow-through · 29499
Local Government: Elections
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy that local authority areas which have had elections postponed in May 2025 will have elections in May 2026.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 6 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 17 Feb 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy that local authority areas which have had elections postponed in May 2025 will have elections in May 2026.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Feb 2025
Answer published
We have postponed local authority elections from May 2025 to May 2026 only, where it is crucial to do so in order to ensure that we can reorganise local government and deliver devolution as quickly as possible.For those areas which are part of the Devolut...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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