Question follow-through · 48670
EU Nationals: 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 allowing EU citizens with settled status in the UK the right to vote in local and parliamentary elections.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 28 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 7 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Apr 2025
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 allowing EU citizens with settled status in the UK the right to vote in local and parliamentary elections.
30 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 May 2025
Answer published
EU citizens who were legally resident in the UK prior to withdrawal from the EU, or whose countries have a bilateral reciprocal voting rights agreement with the UK, can vote in local elections in England and Northern Ireland. Citizens of EU Member States ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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