Select Committee · Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Electoral Law inquiry

Status: Closed Opened: 5 Mar 2019 Closed: 5 Mar 2019 1 report

Many of the core elements of the law regulating election campaigns in parliamentary constituencies and local authority wards have not been updated since the nineteenth century. Recent prosecutions and investigations have demonstrated that even many experts are confused about how the law should be applied in practice to modern election campaigns. The DCMS Committee inquiry …

Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
1st Report - Electoral Law: The Urgent Need for Review HC 244 1 Nov 2019 0

Oral evidence sessions

4 sessions
Date Witnesses
21 Oct 2019 Session View ↗
23 Jul 2019 Session View ↗
16 Jul 2019 Session View ↗
2 Jul 2019 Session View ↗

Correspondence

3 letters
DateDirectionTitle
21 Oct 2019 To cttee Letter from Kevin Foster to the Chair on annual canvas reform, dated 15 October…
8 Oct 2019 To cttee Letter from Kevin Foster MP to Chair, on voter ID evaluation, 22 July 2019
8 Oct 2019 To cttee Letter from Craig Westwood, Director of Communications and Research, Electoral …