Question follow-through · 29500
Local Government: Elections
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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 6 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 12 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 publish the conversations and negotiations which she had in order to determine which elections were to be postponed.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Feb 2025
Answer published
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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