Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 41 of the Explanatory Notes for the Elections Bill as brought from the House of Commons on 18 January 2022, if she will publish the underlying polling and focus group data cited relating to public attitudes on changing the voting system for Police and Crime Commissioner elections.

As Part of the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Review evidence in relation to the voting mechanism for PCCs was gathered to inform the recommendations announced by the Home Secretary in March 2021.

This analysis was produced as internal analysis for the purposes of policy development. Given the Review was an internal Review, reporting directly to the Home Secretary, there are no plans to publish the evidence gathered.