Written Question·Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission·UIN 118913

Election Offences

Tabled: 9 March 2026
Answered: 16 March 2026
Named Day

Question

Mr Richard Holden

Conservative — Basildon and Billericay

To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2026 to Question 116224, whether the Electoral Commission plans to undertake research on the relat

Answer

Sir Jeremy Wright
The Electoral Commission does not plan to research the relationship between biradari networks, first cousin marriage and electoral fraud.Despite very low levels of proven electoral fraud in the UK, it is a matter the Commission takes seriously. It publish...
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