Elections: Complaints

(asked on 1st June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the implications are for the Government's policies of recommendation 28 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 designing and introducing a formal complaints system as outlined by the Law Commissions that provides for a clearer and local system of accountability and challenge.


Answered by
Chloe Smith Portrait
Chloe Smith
This question was answered on 8th June 2018

Sir Eric Pickles, in his review, ‘Securing the Ballot’, also made the following recommendation:

“To consider implementing a process for electors’ complaints about the administration of elections (which do not aim to overturn the result) to be investigated by the Local Government Ombudsman in England, the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman, the Public Service Ombudsman for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Ombudsman as a means of providing an appropriate and accessible channel for considering complaints of a less serious nature.”

The Government, in its response to the report, agreed with this recommendation and will look to bring this forward at a suitable opportunity.

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