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Written Question
Elections: Disclosure Of Information
Thursday 21st December 2023

Asked by: Lord Hayward (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask His Majesty's Government when in 2022 officials first received counsel’s opinion from the Electoral Commission in relation to voter secrecy under the Representation of the People Act 1983.

Answered by Baroness Penn - Minister on Leave (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State)

Officials first received counsel’s advice from the Electoral Commission on 26 August 2022, and a follow-up opinion on 29 September 2022.