Question follow-through · 99365
Absent Voting: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government monitors the number of postal or proxy votes issued to non-UK nationals eligible to vote in local elections.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 22 Dec 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government monitors the number of postal or proxy votes issued to non-UK nationals eligible to vote in local elections.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Department does not hold data on the number of postal or proxy votes issued to foreign nationals eligible to vote in English local elections. The Department also does not hold data on the number of foreign nationals registered to vote in English local...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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