questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with refence to his Department's oral statement of 18 December 2025 on Local Government Reorganisation, Official Report col 1130, whether he expects election officials to be made redundant if elections are cancelled in May 2026.
answerText: The majority of 2026 council elections are unaffected by local government reorganisation and are going ahead. While staffing decisions are for individual councils who employ electoral services staff, if the Government decides to postpone any elections it ...
heading: Local Government: Reorganisation