Question follow-through · 128543

Absent Voting

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish his Department's review on deadlines and practices relating to the dispatching of postal ballots.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
20 Apr 2026
Target answer date
23 Apr 2026
Answer
23 Apr 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Apr 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish his Department's review on deadlines and practices relating to the dispatching of postal ballots.

  2. 23 Apr 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Apr 2026

    Answer published

    The Government is committed to strengthening the resilience of our electoral processes, including the postal voting system. In the 2025 policy paper, Restoring trust in our democracy: Our strategy for modern and secure elections the Government set out a p...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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