Political Parties: Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, further to the Rycroft Review response: letter to parliamentary parties, of 7 July 2026, whether the minimum residency requirement applies individuals who have been continually registered as domestic electors but who may have been residing abroad in whole or in part for the year, or only to overseas electors and non-registered electors who were residing abroad.
Answered by Samantha Dixon
The relevant question for the purposes of the minimum residency period is when the individual was last resident outside the United Kingdom.
Residency is determined using the existing electoral law concept of residence in section 5 of the Representation of the People Act 1983. Residence is therefore determined by a factual assessment of whether someone is genuinely living at a UK address. A donor will be required to declare whether they are and have been resident in the UK based on their own circumstances.
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