PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(24 November 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress his Department has made in implementing the conclusion of the 2014 consultation on modernising parish poll rules; and if he will take legislative steps to (a) strengthen trigger thresholds and (b) prevent the misuse of parish polls.

Asked by:
Tom Gordon (Liberal Democrat)

The government acknowledges that a significant time has passed since the coalition government consulted on proposals to modernise the parish polls.

The government has no immediate plans to amend the parish poll regulations.

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