British citizens who have been living abroad for less than fifteen years are eligible to vote in parliamentary elections. The Conservative Party has pledged to remove the fifteen-year limit, a reform for which Alistair Lexden called last year in the Lords.
Since then he has been a member of a cross-party group which examined ways in which the number actually registered to vote could be increased from the very low level that exists now.
The group’s report Making Votes Count was debated in the Grand Committee Room of the Lords on November 26.
You can read the full debate here: Hansard