§ Miss WiddecombeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if prisoners serving their sentences on the home detention curfew scheme are disqualified from(a) voting at and (b) standing in elections; and if he will make a statement. [140878]
§ Mr. BoatengPrisoners who are released on home detention curfew are eligible to vote in all elections and to stand for election to the House of Commons, the National Assembly for Wales and the European Parliament. They are disqualified from standing for membership of a local authority in England and Wales if they have been convicted and sentenced to a term of imprisonment of more than three months in the five years preceding the date of the election.