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Voting rights for prisoners
- This consultation has completed. It ran from Monday, 12 November 2018 to Monday, 7 January 2019
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Response to the consultation
Evidence submitted in response to this Consultation
- Consultation letter PDF 94 KB
- VRP01 - Association of Electoral Administrators PDF 83 KB View as HTML (2) 27 KB
- VRP02 - Electoral Commission PDF 66 KB View as HTML (3) 63 KB
- VRP03 - Prison Reform Trust PDF 269 KB View as HTML (4) 46 KB
- VRP04 - Youth Justice Board PDF 588 KB
- VRP05 - Colin Murray, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University PDF 366 KB View as HTML (6) 73 KB
- VRP06 - Dr Cormac Behan, School of Law, University of Sheffield PDF 337 KB
- VRP07 - Wales Governance Centre PDF 440 KB
Purpose of the consultation
Terms of reference
The
terms of reference for the inquiry were to consider:
- Arguments for and against giving some or
all prisoners the right to vote in Welsh elections, and whether distinctions
might be drawn between different categories of prisoner on the basis of
sentence length, expected date of release, or types of offence;
- Practical issues, such as electoral
registration (including address), voting method, prisoner engagement with
the political process, the provision of political and citizenship
information and education;
- Cross-border issues arising from
prisoners from Wales being imprisoned in England and vice versa;
- Whether special considerations apply to
young offenders in custody if the franchise is extended to 16 and 17 year
olds generally, and
- Other countries’ approaches to prisoner
voting.
Providing Written Evidence
The
National Assembly for Wales has two official languages, Welsh and English.
In
line with the Assembly’s
Official Languages Scheme, the Committee requests that documents or
written responses to consultations intended for publication or use in National
Assembly proceedings are submitted bilingually. When documents or written
responses are not submitted bilingually, we will publish in the language
submitted, stating that it has been received in that language only.
We
expect other organisations to implement their own standards or schemes and to
comply with their statutory obligation.
Please
see guidance
for those providing evidence for committees.
Online discussion board
The
Committee also opened an online discussion board on voting rights for prisoners
and how they could be better delivered. The discussion board has now closed.
Disclosure of information
Please
ensure that you have considered the Assembly’s policy
on disclosure of information before submitting information to the
Committee.
Contact details
Should you wish to speak to someone regarding this consultation, please use the below contact details:
Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee
Welsh Parliament
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF99 1SN
Email: Contact@senedd.wales
Telephone: 0300 200 6565