Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 18 June 2019.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 27 May (HL15627), what was the cost of running each of the most recent eight mayoral elections.
Costs of elections of combined authority mayors are met by the combined authorities and this information is held locally. Certain combined authorities have also reported and published their running expenses for conducting elections in their General Fund Revenue Account Outturns and these are set out in the table below:
Combined authority | Year of election | £ (thousands) |
2017 | £1,151 (2017-18 return) | |
2017 | £1,532 (2016-17 return) + £630 (2017-18 return) = £2,162 | |
2017 | £1,083 (2017-18 return) | |
2017 | £4,318 (2017-18 return) | |
2017 | £1,534 (2017-18 return) |
Link to the 17-18 data (attached):
Link to the 16-17 data (attached):
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