| Heading: |
Elections: Essex |
| Question ID: |
1804358 |
| UIN: |
53565 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4474 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Kevin Hollinrake
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| Asking Member handle: |
kevinhollinrake
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@kevinhollinrake
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the scheduled local council elections in Essex in 2026 will be (a) postponed and (b) cancelled. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-28 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4569 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Jim McMahon
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| Answering Member handle: |
JimfromOldham
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@JimfromOldham
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Correcting Member handle: |
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| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
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| Answer text: |
There are no plans to postpone local elections in 2026. The government’s starting point is for all elections to go ahead unless there is strong justification. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |