| Heading: |
Undocumented Migrants: Voting Rights |
| Question ID: |
1758505 |
| UIN: |
26185 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-23 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5158 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Rupert Lowe
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| Asking Member handle: |
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Rupert Lowe
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that people entering the UK illegally can never vote in elections. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-31 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4138 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Rushanara Ali
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| Answering Member handle: |
rushanaraali
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@rushanaraali
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
Only those foreign nationals who are eligible to vote and who have leave to enter or remain, or who do not require such leave, are entitled to register and vote in elections over which the UK Government and Parliament have responsibility. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |