Oral QuestionDepartment for Business and Trade

If she will take steps to include measures on protecting seafarers' employment rights in future trade deals.

Tabled: 18 January 2024Answered: 25 January 2024

Asked by

Ian Byrne

LabourLiverpool West Derby

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Answer from Hansard

Sir Jeremy Wright (Kenilworth and Southam)

The Electoral Commission has made no formal assessment of this. It would be a matter for Parliament to introduce such legal protections. It is prescribed in law that poll cards and ballot papers must be provided in English or Welsh, but there are no other prescribed language requirements relating to election materials. The commission translates voter materials, including voter registration forms, into a range of languages, informed by census data and community insights on voter needs.