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1199494

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ballot Papers: Visual Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the design of ballot papers for people with impaired vision.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	53512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has improved the design and accessibility of ballot papers and forms at elections and referendums. This involved public user-testing of the revised voting forms, including the ballot paper, poll cards and postal voting statements. The work took into account the findings in the Electoral Commission’s “Making your mark” report and made improvements to forms which voters use in order to make voting as accessible as possible.</p><p>In partnership with the Royal National Institute of Blind People, the Government is taking action to further improve the support provided at the polling station to voters with sight loss. This has included the testing of a tactile audio device to allow the voter to access candidate information, and, at the 12 December General Election, encouraging Returning Officers to allow the use of smartphones with specially designed apps for reading documents and video magnifiers to help them cast their vote.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 09/06/2020 11:32:11 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1199495

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Appointments: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a list of Scottish public appointments approved by Ministers in his Department in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	53513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2020 answer text <p>Public appointments to devolved bodies in Scotland are a matter for the Scottish Government.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 09/06/2020 14:29:38 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1199496

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have had with Ministers in the devolved Administrations on improving the level of voter registration; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	53514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to change the voting age, having been elected on a manifesto commitment to retain the current franchise at 18.</p><p>The Government has no plans to introduce automatic registration. The Government considers registering to vote (and voting) to be a civic duty, but does not believe it should be compulsory. With online registration, the Government has made it easier than ever for those who want to to register.</p><p>The Cabinet Office does not hold information on eligible electors who are not registered to vote for an election. Numbers registered for electoral events are published by the Electoral Commission. Reports on the 2015, 2017, and 2019 General Elections have been produced by the Electoral Commission and are available online at <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/" target="_blank">www.electoralcommission.org.uk</a>.</p><p>Some headline registration statistics by area published by the Office for National Statistics. The latest bulletin is available at <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/elections/electoralregistration" target="_blank">www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/elections/electoralregistration</a>.</p><p>The Cabinet Office has recently considered creating a live registration status check. There are technical, security and privacy issues but the Cabinet Office will continue to see whether future developments provide a feasible and cost-effective solution in coming years.</p><p>The Government believes that there is no clear evidence that voting on a national holiday would lead to an increase in turnout.</p><p>The Government was elected on a manifesto pledge to continue to support First Past the Post for parliamentary elections. The First Past the Post system is a robust and secure way of electing Members of Parliament. It ensures a clear link between elected representatives and constituents in a manner that systems of Proportional Representation may not. This ensures that MPs can represent the interests of their constituents when debating national issues.</p><p>The UK Government works closely with ministers and officials in devolved administrations on a range of issues relating to elections, including electoral registration issues. Details of discussions are not normally disclosed.</p><p>Each Electoral Registration Officer maintains a register for their own local area, including the number of overseas electors registered in their area. Information is not collated or held centrally on voting by electors. The Government does not hold data on UK citizens resident overseas who are registered to vote, who have successfully applied for absent voting, or who voted in the 2019 UK Parliamentary General Election.</p><p>Since 2013/14, the Government has provided more than £27 million to promote electoral registration and democratic engagement more widely, including among young people. For the 2019 General Election, of the 3.5 million people who registered to vote online between the day the poll was announced and the registration deadline, 66.1% were aged between 18 and 34.</p><p>The Cabinet Office is working closely with the Electoral Commission, Association of Electoral Administrators and Society of Local Government Chief Executives to support local authorities to deliver their duties in line with the Government’s guidance on Coronavirus. This includes working with the Electoral Commission on guidance for the 2020 canvass, which is now published on their website.</p><p>The planning and running of polls is the responsibility of Returning Officers, who are statutorily independent of local or national government. The Government does not collect data on those turned away from polls.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 52223 52226 52227 52228 52230 52231 52232 53516 53521 53522 53523 53525 53526 53530 question first answered 09/06/2020 14:40:25 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1199497

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Special Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many special advisors there were in each Government Department in each of the last five years; and what the cost of employing those advisors was.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	53515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2020 answer text <p>Pursuant to Section 16 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, a report about special advisers, including the number and the cost, is prepared by the Cabinet Office and laid before Parliament on an annual basis. Reports dating back to 2010 are available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/special-adviser-data-releases-numbers-and-costs" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/special-adviser-data-releases-numbers-and-cost</a></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 10/06/2020 16:51:20 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1199498

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost of supporting annual electoral registration was in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	53516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to change the voting age, having been elected on a manifesto commitment to retain the current franchise at 18.</p><p>The Government has no plans to introduce automatic registration. The Government considers registering to vote (and voting) to be a civic duty, but does not believe it should be compulsory. With online registration, the Government has made it easier than ever for those who want to to register.</p><p>The Cabinet Office does not hold information on eligible electors who are not registered to vote for an election. Numbers registered for electoral events are published by the Electoral Commission. Reports on the 2015, 2017, and 2019 General Elections have been produced by the Electoral Commission and are available online at <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/" target="_blank">www.electoralcommission.org.uk</a>.</p><p>Some headline registration statistics by area published by the Office for National Statistics. The latest bulletin is available at <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/elections/electoralregistration" target="_blank">www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/elections/electoralregistration</a>.</p><p>The Cabinet Office has recently considered creating a live registration status check. There are technical, security and privacy issues but the Cabinet Office will continue to see whether future developments provide a feasible and cost-effective solution in coming years.</p><p>The Government believes that there is no clear evidence that voting on a national holiday would lead to an increase in turnout.</p><p>The Government was elected on a manifesto pledge to continue to support First Past the Post for parliamentary elections. The First Past the Post system is a robust and secure way of electing Members of Parliament. It ensures a clear link between elected representatives and constituents in a manner that systems of Proportional Representation may not. This ensures that MPs can represent the interests of their constituents when debating national issues.</p><p>The UK Government works closely with ministers and officials in devolved administrations on a range of issues relating to elections, including electoral registration issues. Details of discussions are not normally disclosed.</p><p>Each Electoral Registration Officer maintains a register for their own local area, including the number of overseas electors registered in their area. Information is not collated or held centrally on voting by electors. The Government does not hold data on UK citizens resident overseas who are registered to vote, who have successfully applied for absent voting, or who voted in the 2019 UK Parliamentary General Election.</p><p>Since 2013/14, the Government has provided more than £27 million to promote electoral registration and democratic engagement more widely, including among young people. For the 2019 General Election, of the 3.5 million people who registered to vote online between the day the poll was announced and the registration deadline, 66.1% were aged between 18 and 34.</p><p>The Cabinet Office is working closely with the Electoral Commission, Association of Electoral Administrators and Society of Local Government Chief Executives to support local authorities to deliver their duties in line with the Government’s guidance on Coronavirus. This includes working with the Electoral Commission on guidance for the 2020 canvass, which is now published on their website.</p><p>The planning and running of polls is the responsibility of Returning Officers, who are statutorily independent of local or national government. The Government does not collect data on those turned away from polls.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 52223 52226 52227 52228 52230 52231 52232 53514 53521 53522 53523 53525 53526 53530 question first answered 09/06/2020 14:40:26 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1199506

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	General Election 2019: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the level of (a) voter personation and (b) electoral fraud taking place at the 2019 General Election.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	53517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2020 answer text <p>This data is not held by the Cabinet Office. The Electoral Commission reports on electoral fraud.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 09/06/2020 14:30:11 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1199523

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Proof of Identity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) individuals and (b) businesses registered for the Verify programme in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	53518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2020 answer text <p><a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify enables individuals to prove who they are digitally and to access online government services safely and securely. Over 6.8 million accounts have been created on<a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank"> GOV.UK</a> Verify since it went live in October 2014. The breakdown for the last five years is as follows:</p><ul><li><p>2014 - 1706</p></li><li><p>2015: 526,164</p></li><li><p>2016: 447,487</p></li><li><p>2017: 753,782</p></li><li><p>2018: 1,628,092</p></li><li><p>2019: 2,194,816</p></li><li><p>2020 (until 31 May): 1,294,337</p></li></ul><p>The privacy-centric design of<a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank"> GOV.UK</a> Verify means that it is not possible to provide a breakdown of users by constituency or region.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 53524 54166 question first answered 17/06/2020 16:07:50 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1199524

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the National Cyber Security Programme has spent in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	53519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2020 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. member to the answers given to PQs <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-06-02/53531/" target="_blank">52225 and 53531</a> on 9 June 2020.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 10/06/2020 16:16:16 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1199529

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Local Government: Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent discussions his Department has held with local authorities on cyber-security.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	53520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government is ensuring that local government receives regular advice and guidance relating to cyber security.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 10/06/2020 16:16:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1199550

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many UK citizens resident overseas were (a) registered to vote, (b) successfully applied for absent voting and (c) voted in the 2019 UK Parliamentary General Election.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	53521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to change the voting age, having been elected on a manifesto commitment to retain the current franchise at 18.</p><p>The Government has no plans to introduce automatic registration. The Government considers registering to vote (and voting) to be a civic duty, but does not believe it should be compulsory. With online registration, the Government has made it easier than ever for those who want to to register.</p><p>The Cabinet Office does not hold information on eligible electors who are not registered to vote for an election. Numbers registered for electoral events are published by the Electoral Commission. Reports on the 2015, 2017, and 2019 General Elections have been produced by the Electoral Commission and are available online at <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/" target="_blank">www.electoralcommission.org.uk</a>.</p><p>Some headline registration statistics by area published by the Office for National Statistics. The latest bulletin is available at <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/elections/electoralregistration" target="_blank">www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/elections/electoralregistration</a>.</p><p>The Cabinet Office has recently considered creating a live registration status check. There are technical, security and privacy issues but the Cabinet Office will continue to see whether future developments provide a feasible and cost-effective solution in coming years.</p><p>The Government believes that there is no clear evidence that voting on a national holiday would lead to an increase in turnout.</p><p>The Government was elected on a manifesto pledge to continue to support First Past the Post for parliamentary elections. The First Past the Post system is a robust and secure way of electing Members of Parliament. It ensures a clear link between elected representatives and constituents in a manner that systems of Proportional Representation may not. This ensures that MPs can represent the interests of their constituents when debating national issues.</p><p>The UK Government works closely with ministers and officials in devolved administrations on a range of issues relating to elections, including electoral registration issues. Details of discussions are not normally disclosed.</p><p>Each Electoral Registration Officer maintains a register for their own local area, including the number of overseas electors registered in their area. Information is not collated or held centrally on voting by electors. The Government does not hold data on UK citizens resident overseas who are registered to vote, who have successfully applied for absent voting, or who voted in the 2019 UK Parliamentary General Election.</p><p>Since 2013/14, the Government has provided more than £27 million to promote electoral registration and democratic engagement more widely, including among young people. For the 2019 General Election, of the 3.5 million people who registered to vote online between the day the poll was announced and the registration deadline, 66.1% were aged between 18 and 34.</p><p>The Cabinet Office is working closely with the Electoral Commission, Association of Electoral Administrators and Society of Local Government Chief Executives to support local authorities to deliver their duties in line with the Government’s guidance on Coronavirus. This includes working with the Electoral Commission on guidance for the 2020 canvass, which is now published on their website.</p><p>The planning and running of polls is the responsibility of Returning Officers, who are statutorily independent of local or national government. The Government does not collect data on those turned away from polls.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 52223 52226 52227 52228 52230 52231 52232 53514 53516 53522 53523 53525 53526 53530 question first answered 09/06/2020 14:40:26 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day