| Heading: |
Elections: Northern Ireland |
| Question ID: |
1795988 |
| UIN: |
HL6703 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4216 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Empey
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Lord Empey
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government whether it remains their intention that the Northern Ireland Assembly and Northern Ireland local government elections will be held on the same day in 2027. |
| 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: |
4508 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent
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| Answering Member handle: |
RuthAnderson
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@RuthAnderson
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
The dates on which Northern Ireland local elections and Northern Ireland Assembly elections are to be held are set out in legislation. The Government does not intend to change the date of the 2027 elections. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
21 |
| Answering body name: |
Northern Ireland Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |