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1665738

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date	18/10/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential fiscal merits of requiring all local elections in England to be conducted on the same day every four years.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	203358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government has not made any such assessment as the costs of local elections are met locally. Holding whole council elections every four years can strengthen local leadership and enhance accountability.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 25/10/2023 15:18:55 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1171926

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the effect on the public purse of holding combined local elections every four years for local authorities, police and crime commissioners, regional mayors and the Greater London Authority.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	5482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government has not made an assessment of the effect on the public purse of holding combined elections every four years. Not all local authorities hold their council elections on a four-year cycle and new elected positions can be created, as we have seen for local authority and combined authority mayors in recent years.</p><p>Combined polls will often result in lower overall costs to public funds both in respect of the Consolidated Fund and the relevant devolved administration or local authority sources. Combination has also been shown to increase turnout in instances where a poll that traditionally experiences low turnout is combined with a poll where turnout is higher.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 28/01/2020 17:56:53 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

890164

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what assessment the Committee has made of the potential effect on the Electoral Commission's future expenditure of the abolition of the election of councillors to local authorities by halves or thirds.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	904969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2018 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission has made no assessment of the impact on its future expenditure if legislation was to be brought forward and approved to abolish elections by halves or thirds for all English local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 26/04/2018 08:47:32 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena