Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 29500

Local Government: Elections

Tabled: 6 February 2025
Answered: 18 February 2025

Question

Lee Anderson

Reform UK — Ashfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the conversations and negotiations which she had in order to determine which elections were to be postponed.

Answer

Jim McMahon
The Secretary of State will not publish these details. I wrote to councils who requested for their local elections to be postponed from May 2025 to May 2026 to inform them of the outcome of the government's decision. The bar for postponement was high and ...
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