Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of whether the Government's management of the 2019 European elections breached EU law.

The Government took all the legal steps necessary to prepare for the European Parliamentary
elections and put in place all the legislative and funding elements to enable Returning Officers to
make their preparations required for the polls on 23 May. The Government worked with Returning
Officers and the Electoral Commission and other agencies such as the Society of Local Authority
Chief Executives (SOLACE) and the Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA) to support the
smooth running of the polls.