questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, further to his letter to council leaders and others of 16 February 2026, on postponement of local elections in England in May 2026, for what reason the secondary legislation was reversed and not the legal challenge not contested.
answerText: I refer the Rt Hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement made on 23 February 2026 (HCWS1349). It is a longstanding principle that government does not comment on or publish legal advice. The case the Rt Hon. Member refers to has now been concluded a...
heading: Elections: Local Government