Asked by: Alistair Carmichael (Liberal Democrat - Orkney and Shetland)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
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.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
The secondary legislation to deliver the overseas electors change is expected to be made and come into force in January 2024.
Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bishops - Bishops) Over the first quarter of this year, 22,000 Ukrainians and British nationals from Hong Kong were resettled - Speech Link
2: None Some will even face the threat of death and be pushed to find safe havens abroad. - Speech Link
3: Lord Horam (CON - Life peer) and the European Court of Human Rights. - Speech Link
4: None I will not be voting for it but with the Government. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (CON - Life peer) many times behaved in such a way as to suggest that we do not want to take seriously what they are voting - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) It particularly stresses the extension of overseas voting rights to British citizens who have been resident - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) position.Finally, as I said in the previous debate, this is likely to be the most expensive year coming up in British - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) abuses abroad”.That is what the Bill does. - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) nationals—a mother and her two daughters—in April. - Speech Link
3: Andy McDonald (LAB - Middlesbrough) I will be exercising one of my human rights, the freedom of expression and of conscience, by voting consistently - Speech Link
4: Richard Burgon (LAB - Leeds East) That is what we are voting on today. - Speech Link
5: Imran Hussain (LAB - Bradford East) by voting for today’s amendment that will reject the Bill. - Speech Link
Jun. 29 2023
Source Page: Inspection report on Home Office country of origin information, Iraq and Myanmar (Burma) January 2023.Found: Moreover, they sought to rely on resources such as BBC Monitoring to access material from abroad. 2.8
Jun. 29 2023
Source Page: Inspection report on Home Office country of origin information, Iraq and Myanmar (Burma) January 2023.Found: Moreover, they sought to rely on resources such as BBC Monitoring to access material from abroad. 2.8
Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) Perhaps the Minister could tell us how many British nationals, in addition to Jimmy Lai, are in Chinese - Speech Link
2: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) citizens in prison abroad are looked after generally was very critical of the Government. - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) As to possible numbers and whether that includes any British nationals, I will ask my colleague the Indo-Pacific - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Carlile of Berriew (CB - Life peer) , like anybody who has ever prosecuted a semi-serious case and done cases where some witnesses were abroad - Speech Link
2: Lord German (LDEM - Life peer) Rwanda is currently the only removal agreement that the UK has in place that includes third country nationals - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kramer (LDEM - Life peer) The context is that one is a British citizen and the others are not British citizens, and therefore their - Speech Link
4: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (CON - Life peer) Although we will not be voting tonight, for reasons explained, I urge the noble and learned Lord and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) What steps is the Minister taking to protect activists, especially British nationals, who are engaged - Speech Link
2: Fabian Hamilton (LAB - Leeds North East) nationals and support human rights defenders across the region? - Speech Link
3: James Cleverly (CON - Braintree) On the threats to British nationals and people based here in the UK, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) I am proud to represent many Pakistani-British dual nationals in Stoke-on-Trent North, Kidsgrove and - Speech Link
Report Jun. 11 2023
Committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)Found: despite the ECtHR decision in Hirst v UK (No.2) (2006) 42 EHRR 41 that the UK’s blanket ban on prisoner voting