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Lord Pack (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 21 January 2026

Debate

Local Elections: Cancellation

Contribution

My Lords, it is disappointing that the Government appear set on disregarding the Electoral Commission’s views, which were that “we do not think that capacity constraints are a legitimate reason for delaying long planned elections”. However, as that seems to be the course that we are set on, can the Minister confirm that county councillors in places such as Sussex will have their term of office extended only by one year, and that the Government will not end up extending their term of office by two years until the new councils are due to come in? An extension of two years would mean that councillors elected for four years would end up serving a term of seven years. Can the Minister unequivocally rule out any possibility that councillors will end up serving seven-year terms?

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