General Election 2019

(asked on 1st June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of (a) the cost to the public purse of administering the 2019 General Election and (b) the amount that accrued to the public purse as a result of candidates losing their deposits at that election.


Answered by
Chloe Smith Portrait
Chloe Smith
This question was answered on 9th June 2020

The cost of administering the 2019 General Election will not be known until all Returning Officers’ expenses claims relating to that poll have been settled.

£622,500 was accrued to the public purse as a result of 1,245 candidates losing their deposit.

Reticulating Splines