Electoral Commission Board
About our Commission Board
Our Commission Board, made up of our Commissioners and Executive Team, meets regularly to talk about our plans and how we’re making them happen.
We publish the minutes of these meetings so you can understand more about what we do.
Latest meeting minutes
13 January 2026
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Welcomes, apologies and any new declarations of interest
- Overview of the Business Support Team’s work
- Chief Executive’s update
- Finance and Performance update
- Budgetary and performance approvals
- Project Deep Dive – Post Code Look-Up Tool
- Electoral Law Consolidation Update
- Governance and procedural matters
2026 meeting minutes
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Welcomes, apologies and any new declarations of interest
- Overview of the Business Support Team’s work
- Chief Executive’s update
- Finance and Performance update
- Budgetary and performance approvals
- Project Deep Dive – Post Code Look-Up Tool
- Electoral Law Consolidation Update
- Governance and procedural matters
2025 meeting minutes
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Welcomes, apologies and any new declarations of interest
- Overview of the Regulatory Support Team’s work (EC 314/25)
- Chief Executive’s update (EC 315/25)
- People survey
- Corporate plan: near-final draft (EC 316/25)
- Committee meetings held since November 2024 (EC 317/25)
- Governance and procedural matters (EC 318/24)
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Welcomes, apologies and any new declarations of interest
- Overview of the Policy Team’s work (EC 320/25)
- Chief Executive’s update
- People Survey (EC 322/25)
- Strategy and Policy Statement (EC 325/25)
- Corporate plan 2025/30 and Main Estimate 2025/26 UK Parliament: final approval (EC 323/25)
- Update on developing policy agenda (EC 324/25)
- Committee meeting held since January 2025 (EC 326/25)
- Governance and procedural matters (EC 327/24)
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Welcomes, apologies and any new declarations of interest
- Partner Day (13 May) Briefing (EC 328/25)
- Chief Executive’s update including Q4 (year-end) finance and performance report (EC 329/25)
- Update on emerging research and policy work on donation caps (EC 330/25)
- Draft annual report and accounts 2024/25 (EC 331/25)
- Strategic update to board on the corporate projects (Presentation)
- Review of risk management framework (EC 333/25)
- Governance and procedural matters (EC 334/25)
- Date and time of the next meeting
- Update on Board Effectiveness Survey
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Welcomes, apologies and any new declarations of interest
- Chief Executive’s update with Q1 2025/26 Finance and Performance Report
- Update on UK Government's strategy and policy paper outlining plans for major electoral reforms
- Budgetary and performance approvals
- Project Deep Dive – Political Finance Online (PFO) project
- Public awareness for the May 2026 elections: paid advertising
- Voter Education: Impartiality requirements for partners
- Governance and procedural matters
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Welcome, apologies and any new declarations of interests
- Chief Executive’s update
- Budgetary and performance approvals
- Project deep dive – Voter Education
- Governance and procedural matters
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Welcomes, apologies and any new declarations of interest
- Chief Executive’s update
- Finance and Performance update
- Budgetary and performance approvals
- Project Deep Dive – New Finance System
- Annual Review of Risk Appetite
- Governance and procedural matters
- Date and time of the next meeting
2024 meeting minutes
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Closed session of the Board
- Welcomes and apologies
- Declarations of interests
- Minutes (EC 248/24)
- Commission Board action tracker (EC 249/24)Chief Executive’s quarterly update (Oral)
- Chief Executive’s quarterly update
- Forward Plan of Board business 2023/24 and 2024-25 (EC 250/24)
- Key messages for the Annual Report 2023-24 (EC 251/24
- Performance indicators and targets 2024-25 (EC 252/24)
- Risk appetite statement 2024-25 (EC 253/24)
- Budget update: 2023-24 Supplementary Estimate and 2024-25 Main Estimate (EC 254/24)
- Delivery of the next UKPGE – review of strategic risks (Presentation)
- Update from the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee Chair (Oral)
- Update from the Remuneration and Human Resources Committee Chair (Oral)
- Update from the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee Chair (Oral)
- Annual review of schedule of policies and codes (EC 255/24)
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Closed session of the Board
- Welcomes and apologies
- Declarations of interests
- Minutes (EC 256/24)
- Commission Board action tracker (EC 257/24)
- Chief Executive’s quarterly update (EC 258/24)
- Forward Plan of Board business 2023/24 and 2024/25 (EC 259/24)
- Strategy and Policy Statement update (EC 260/24)
- Governance matter: Remuneration and Human Resources Committee membership (EC 261/24)
- Performance indicators and targets 2024/25 (EC 262/24)
- Risk items
- Update from the Remuneration and Human Resources Committee (RemCo) Chair (Oral)
- Update from the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee Chair (Oral)
- Annual review of schedule of policies and codes (EC 265/24)
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Closed session of the Board
- Welcomes and apologies
- Declarations of interests
- Minutes (EC 266/24)
- Commission Board action tracker (EC 267/24)
- Forward Plan of Board business 2024/25 (EC 268/24)
- Chief Executive’s update (EC 269/24)
- Governance matters
- Electoral Commission Observers Strategy (EC 271/24)
- Party Conference Strategy (EC 272/24)
- Audit and Risk Assurance Committee annual report 2023/24 (EC 273/24)
- Remuneration and Human Resources Committee (EC 274/24)
- Update from the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee Chair (Oral)
- UKPGE risk and mitigation work (EC 275/24)
- Register of interests, gifts, donations and hospitality (EC 276/24)
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Welcomes, apologies and any new declarations of interest
- Introduction to the Scotland team
- Chief Executive’s update and Q4 2023/24 finance and performance report (EC 277/24)
- May elections reporting (EC 278/24)
- Corporate plan preparation process (EC 279/24)
- Governance matters
- Review the draft Annual Report and Resource Accounts 2023/24 and proposed process: (EC 280/24)
- Minutes (EC 281/24)
- Commission Board action tracker (EC 283/24)
- Closed session of the Board
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Welcomes, apologies and any new declarations of interest
- Chief Executive’s update (EC 286/24)
- Audit opinions (EC 287/24 and 2024-06-25 NAO 2023/24)
- Near final Annual Report and Accounts 2023/24 (EC 289/24)
- Business Planning Process 2024/25 (EC 290/24 and EC 291/24)
- Committee Chairs’ reports (Spoken)
- Governance and procedural matters (EC 292/24)
Tuesday 16 July
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Welcomes, apologies and any new declarations of interest
- Chief Executive’s update (EC 293/24)
- Parliamentary General Election stocktake and preparing for a new parliament (Spoken)
- Corporate Plan 2025 - 30 workstreams at July 2024 (EC 294/24)
- Public awareness plans for scheduled elections in May 2025 (EC 295/24)
- Governance and procedural matters (EC 296/24)
Tuesday 17 September
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Welcomes, apologies and any new declarations of interest
- Chief Executive’s update (EC 297/24)
- Excess vote and qualified report for the Annual Report and Accounts 2023/24 (EC 298/24)
- Corporate Plan 2025/30 - overview
- Corporate Plan 2025/30 – overview approval of emerging narrative and proposals (EC 299/24)
- Main estimates 2025/26 (EC 300/24)
- Annual review of complaints (EC 301/24)
- Committee chairs’ reports
- Governance and procedural matters (EC 302/24)
Tuesday 15 October
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Welcomes, apologies and any new declarations of interest
- Report on elections research findings 2024 (EC 305/24)
- Policy Development Grants consultation (EC 304/24)
- Governance and procedural matters (EC 306/24)
26 November 2024
The topics on this meeting's agenda were:
- Welcomes, apologies and any new declarations of interest
- Introduction to the Procurement Team (EC 307/24)
- Chief Executive’s update with Q2 finance and performance report (EC 308/24)
- Emerging Government policy and policy implications
- Corporate Plan: development (EC 309/24)
- Committee reports
- Governance and procedural matters (EC 310/24)
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