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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that individuals living overseas whose former UK address no longer exists are able to register to vote in the UK.

Applicants will be able to register in respect of an address that no longer exists or if the postcode has changed. The mechanisms for connecting applicants to their qualifying address will be the same regardless of whether the address still exists. In such cases the Electoral Registration Officer should determine which polling district the former address would fall to at the present point in time.

I would encourage any British citizen, domestic or overseas, who needs further support in their application to contact their local Electoral Registration Officer.