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Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of extending the terms of office of councillors following the cancellation of local elections on democratic accoun

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
28 Jan 2026
Target answer date
2 Feb 2026
Answer
5 Feb 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of extending the terms of office of councillors following the cancellation of local elections on democratic accoun

  2. 2 Feb 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    Where local elections are scheduled to be postponed to release essential capacity for delivering local government reorganisation, democratic accountability remains with the elected member whose term will be extended for an additional year. These councillo...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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