Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill 2024-26 Alert Sample


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Publications and Debates

Date Type Title
11th July 2025 Delegated Powers Memorandum Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill: Delegated Powers Memorandum
7th July 2025 1st reading: Minutes of Proceedings
7th July 2025 1st reading
7th July 2025 Bill HL Bill 116 (as brought from the Commons)
4th July 2025 3rd reading
4th July 2025 Report stage
4th July 2025 Bill proceedings: Commons All proceedings up to 4 June 2025 at Report Stage
4th July 2025 Amendment Paper Consideration of Bill Amendments as at 4 July 2025 - large print
4th July 2025 Amendment Paper Consideration of Bill Amendments as at 4 July 2025
3rd July 2025 Amendment Paper Notices of Amendments as at 3 July 2025
2nd July 2025 Amendment Paper Notices of Amendments as at 2 July 2025
26th June 2025 Legislative Consent Motions-devolved legislatures Legislative Consent Motion agreed by the Scottish Parliament - 26 June 2025
24th June 2025 Briefing papers The Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill 2024-25
11th June 2025 Committee stage: 1st sitting
11th June 2025 Bill Bill 261 2024-25 (as amended in Public Bill Committee)
11th June 2025 Bill Bill 261 2024-25 (as amended in Public Bill Committee) - xml download
11th June 2025 Bill Bill 261 2024-25 (as amended in Public Bill Committee) - large print
11th June 2025 Proceeding Public Bill Committee Proceedings as at 11 June
11th June 2025 Amendment Paper Public Bill Committee Amendments as at 11 June 2025
10th June 2025 Amendment Paper Notices of Amendments as at 10 June 2025
10th June 2025 Selection of amendments: Commons Chair's provisional selection and grouping of amendments in Committee
10th June 2025 Selection of amendments: Commons Chair's Selection and grouping of Amendments
4th June 2025 Money resolution
1st May 2025 Amendment Paper Notices of Amendments as at 1 May 2025

Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill 2024-26 mentioned

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Calendar
Wednesday 11th June 2025 9:25 a.m.
Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill - Debate - General Committee
Subject: To consider the Bill
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Wednesday 4th June 2025
HM Treasury
James Murray (Labour (Co-op) - Ealing North)

Money Resolution - Main Chamber
Subject: Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill: Money
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Parliamentary Debates
Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill
1 speech (1 words)
1st reading
Monday 7th July 2025 - Lords Chamber
Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill
50 speeches (8,778 words)
Report stage
Friday 4th July 2025 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill
8 speeches (2,822 words)
Committee stage: 1st sitting
Wednesday 11th June 2025 - Public Bill Committees
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Business without Debate
0 speeches (None words)
Wednesday 4th June 2025 - Commons Chamber

Mentions:
1: None divisions) shall not apply to the Motion in the name of James Murray relating to Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill - Link to Speech



Written Answers
Absent Voting
Asked by: Tristan Osborne (Labour - Chatham and Aylesford)
Monday 10th March 2025

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to facilitate the registration of postal voters.

Answered by Rushanara Ali - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

Electors who wish to apply for a postal vote can choose to make their application on paper, or online for reserved elections in Great Britain.

Giving electors the choice to apply for an absent vote through a paper application or online gives electors more control over their voting arrangements, whether they choose to vote in person, via post, or via a proxy. The online postal and proxy vote application services also make the process easier and simpler for many electors. Over 1.5 million people in Great Britain made an application to vote by post or via a proxy in the run-up to the General Election last year. Between the election being called on the 22nd of May 2024 and the deadline for absent vote applications, 84% of postal vote applications and 93% of proxy vote applications were made using the online services.

Over 90% of electors who chose to apply for a postal or proxy vote online during this period found the services to be effective and said that they were satisfied with them.

These services make our democratic system more accessible for electors, and the Government is supporting work to expand their scope. The Government recently gave its full support to the Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill. If passed, the Bill will allow applications for postal and proxy voting arrangements for Welsh and Scottish Parliamentary elections, and local elections in Wales and Scotland, to be made online.




Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill 2024-26 mentioned in Scottish results


Scottish Parliamentary Debates
Decision Time
14 speeches (19,343 words)
Wednesday 25th June 2025 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Johnstone, Alison (NPA - Lothian) 18078, in the name of Jamie Hepburn, on a legislative consent motion on the Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill - Link to Speech

Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill
4 speeches (4,886 words)
Wednesday 25th June 2025 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Johnstone, Alison (NPA - Lothian) legislative consent motion S6M-18078, in the name of Jamie Hepburn, on the Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill - Link to Speech
2: Whitfield, Martin (Lab - South Scotland) who I will detain for slightly longer before decision time because of the Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill - Link to Speech

Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill
3 speeches (2,561 words)
Thursday 19th June 2025 - Committee
Mentions:
1: Whitfield, Martin (Lab - South Scotland) Agenda item 3 is consideration of a legislative consent memorandum on the Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill - Link to Speech

Minister for Parliamentary Business
35 speeches (18,613 words)
Tuesday 1st April 2025 - Committee
Mentions:
1: Hepburn, Jamie (SNP - Cumbernauld and Kilsyth) proposed railways bill, the Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill, the Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill - Link to Speech




Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill 2024-26 mentioned in Welsh results


Welsh Government Publications
Thursday 8th May 2025

Source Page: Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025: integrated impact assessment
Document: Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025: integrated impact assessment (webpage)

Found: It is intended that it will be reviewed following the scrutiny of the Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill



Welsh Senedd Debates
5. Papers to note
None speech (None words)
Wednesday 27th November 2024 - None
6. Papers to note
None speech (None words)
Monday 25th November 2024 - None