Voting Rights: Prisoners
Deputy Prime Minister
Philip Hollobone (Kettering, Conservative)
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister to which categories of prisoner he wishes to give the right to vote.
Mark Harper (Parliamentary Secretary (Political and Constitutional Reform), Cabinet Office; Forest of Dean, Conservative)
The Government will consider carefully the recent judgment on prisoner voting in the case of Scoppola v. Italy (No. 3) and its implications for the UK and will respond in due course.