Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the implications are for the Government's policies of recommendation 27 of the report of the Association of Electoral Administrators entitled It’s time for urgent and positive Government action: The AEA’s review of the 2017 local government elections and the UK Parliamentary general election, published in September 2017, on the Government extending the period to return deposits, whether to candidates or where forfeited, to one calendar week after the date of the poll.
The requirement for Returning Officers to return deposits and surrender forfeited deposits to the Consolidated Fund no later than the next working day after the declaration of the result is set out in primary legislation. We have no plans to amend this requirement.