Question follow-through · 110418
By-elections: Gorton and Denton
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of the election purdah guidance distributed to Whitehall departments for the Gorton and Denton Parliamentary by-election.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 3 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 16 Feb 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of the election purdah guidance distributed to Whitehall departments for the Gorton and Denton Parliamentary by-election.
5 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Feb 2026
Answer published
The rules governing the conduct of UK Government civil servants during a by-election are an extension of those that apply at all times as set out in the Civil Service Code and as described in the published guidance on general elections, which is published...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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