Question follow-through · 50423
Local Government: Remote Meetings
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when her Department will publish the response to the consultation entitled Enabling remote attendance and proxy voting at local authority meetings, which closed on 19 December 20
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 6 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 May 2025
- Answer
- 13 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when her Department will publish the response to the consultation entitled Enabling remote attendance and proxy voting at local authority meetings, which closed on 19 December 20
13 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 May 2025
Answer published
Our consultation on remote attendance and proxy voting closed on 19 December, and results will be published in due course. The consultation aimed to consider how to support the local government sector to modernise democratic engagement and remove unnecess...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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