To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs whether her Department’s proposals to enfranchise convicted prisoners would involve prisoners voting in the constituency where the prison is located or in the constituency of their last known abode. (114013)

No decision on either the enfranchisement of any convicted prisoners, or how such prisoners would vote were they to be enfranchised, has been made.

A consultation paper on the voting rights of convicted prisoners detained with the United Kingdom, was published on 14 December 2006. This will be followed by a second consultation, to consider how any changes might work in practice. Ultimately it will be for Parliament to decide what, if any, changes are made.