| Heading: |
Voting Rights: EU Nationals |
| Question ID: |
1799874 |
| UIN: |
50240 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-06 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5047 |
| Asking Member display name: |
James Naish
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James Naish
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with EU member states on securing new bilateral voting rights agreements. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-19 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4264 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Doughty
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| Answering Member handle: |
SDoughtyMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@SDoughtyMP
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| Answer text: |
Prior to the UK's departure from the EU, in December 2018, the UK wrote to all 27 EU Member States signalling willingness to enter into bilateral agreements to ensure continuity of local election voting and candidacy rights (VCR) for each other's citizens... |
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| Answering body ID: |
208 |
| Answering body name: |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |