| Heading: |
EU Nationals: Voting Rights |
| Question ID: |
1798015 |
| UIN: |
48670 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5111 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Martin Wrigley
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Martin Wrigley
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing EU citizens with settled status in the UK the right to vote in local and parliamentary elections. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-07 |
| 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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| Answer text: |
EU citizens who were legally resident in the UK prior to withdrawal from the EU, or whose countries have a bilateral reciprocal voting rights agreement with the UK, can vote in local elections in England and Northern Ireland. Citizens of EU Member States ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |