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Voting Rights: British Nationals Abroad

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Question for Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

UIN 191888, tabled on 30 June 2023

Question

Mr Alistair Carmichael
Liberal Democrat
Orkney and Shetland
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his planned timetable is for bringing forward secondary legislation under the Elections Act 2022 to implement his policies on overseas voting.

Answer

Dehenna Davison
Conservative
Bishop Auckland
Commons

Answered on

6 July 2023

The secondary legislation to deliver the overseas electors change is expected to be made and come into force in January 2024.

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Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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