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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities's document entitled Uprating spending limits and reviewing other sums in electoral law: letter to Parliamentary Parties Panel, published on 2 September 2022, whether the list of respondents included the Labour Party.

The previous Government wrote to the Parliamentary Parties Panel in September 2022 regarding its intention to proceed with uprating spending limits in line with inflation. The Labour Party were a member of the Parliamentary Parties Panel at the time and no response is held.

Our letters to the Electoral Commission on 10 July and 29 August which set out our rationale regarding the review of the spending limits framework are published on GOV.UK.