Local Government: Remote Meetings

(asked on 6th May 2025) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when her Department will publish the response to the consultation entitled Enabling remote attendance and proxy voting at local authority meetings, which closed on 19 December 2024.


Answered by
Jim McMahon Portrait
Jim McMahon
Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
This question was answered on 13th May 2025

Our consultation on remote attendance and proxy voting closed on 19 December, and results will be published in due course. The consultation aimed to consider how to support the local government sector to modernise democratic engagement and remove unnecessary barriers to participation.

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