Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 16 October 2026 to Question 29561 on Political Parties: Finance, whether the reference in that answer to not being resident “at any point” for the purposes of the UK minimum residency period means (a) they had no period of time in which they were not substantively resident in the UK or (b) that they had some period of time in which they were substantively resident in the UK, in that previous calendar year.

An individual would fall within scope of the rule, if at any point during the relevant period, they were not resident in the UK.