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810623

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections: Visual Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2017 to Question 118799, what changes he recommended for the Certificate of Visual Impairment in England; and what obligations will be placed on electoral administrators as a result of those changes.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	120968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>Following discussions, including with the RNIB, I recommended widening the use of the Certificate of Visual Impairment in England to support severely sight impaired (blind) and sight impaired (partially sighted) people to participate in elections. There is no change to the support electoral administrators are required to provide to blind and partially sighted people within current statutory requirements but it increases the opportunity for people to be made aware of the services on offer and promotes communication of those services.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 08/01/2018 11:24:13 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

810669

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Returning Officers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will review the merits and value to the public purse of additional payments or fees for Returning Officers at local and national elections.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	121014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The returning officer is a statutorily independent officer who is entitled, by statute, to recover payments for services rendered in administering national polls. The fee reflects the additional duties placed on the returning officer alongside duties carried out in their normal post. The fee also reflects the considerable responsibility a returning officer has in administering an election as they are ultimately responsible and liable to the courts for their actions and decisions.</p><p>We are already looking to review the funding of elections, following on from changes to the funding process instituted in 2010, to seek to find efficiencies and improve value for money and intend to consider payments to Returning Officers as part of that process.</p><p>The Cabinet Office is not responsible for additional payments or fees made to Returning Officers at local elections which are a matter for individual local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 08/01/2018 11:21:05 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

806082

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections: Data Protection
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 effect of the EU General Data Protection Regulation on the roles and responsibilities of Electoral Registration Officers and Returning Officers; and what steps the Government is taking to communicate the effect of such changes to Returning Officers, Electoral Registration Officers and their staff.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	119285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission has a statutory role to provide guidance to Electoral Registration Officers and Returning Officers. It is working closely with the Information Commissioner's Office, the Association of Electoral Administrators, the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and the Scottish Assessors Association to develop guidance on the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Bill currently being considered in the House of Lords on the electoral administration responsibilities of Registration Officers and Returning Officers.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/12/2017 15:02:16 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

806109

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	General Elections: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to publish detailed reports and the supporting datasets on the cost to the public purse of the (a) 2015 General Election and (b) 2017 General Election.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	119310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>The report on the cost of the 2015 UK Parliamentary general election is in the process of being finalised and will be published shortly. A report on the cost of the 2017 UK Parliamentary general election will be published once all the expense claims have been received and settled.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/12/2017 17:23:35 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

805107

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
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, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2017 to Question 116339 , if he will publish the exploratory work his Department has undertaken on the creation of an online service to enable people to check if they are registered to vote.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	118779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not intend to publish its high-level assessment of an online registration status checking survey. The results of the assessment were that such service is both impracticable given significant technical and security considerations and very expensive. Indeed, as set out previously, the cost of such a service would far exceed the cost of processing duplicate applications.</p><p>Our work on registration is focused on meeting the requirements of citizens. The need for citizens to be able to check their registration status has not been clearly identified. There is, however, a clear need for citizens to be confident they can apply to register to vote quickly and easily. This is met by the existing online service, which has now seen more than 30m applications. Citizens with questions about their registration status can contact their local elections office directly. Our online service provides citizens with the relevant contact information</p><p><br> We recognise that making applying to register quicker and easier than ever before can generate unnecessary duplicate applications, especially around elections. We therefore intend to continue to work with partners across the electoral community to find ways of reducing unnecessary duplicate applications and making the processing of such applications as easy as possible.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/12/2017 17:18:53 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

805114

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant the Answer of 4 September 2017 to Question 7725 on Elections, when he plans to respond to the Law Commission's 2016 report; and what the reason is for the time taken to publish that response.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	118786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>We are working with the Law Commissions on how best to implement the recommendations of their review of electoral law.</p><p>We have agreed with the Law Commissions and key electoral stakeholders possible means of effecting reform through the drafting of secondary legislation. Work is underway on this by the Law Commissions, who will be supported by Cabinet Office and the Electoral Commission.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/12/2017 10:40:50 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

805116

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Returning Officers: Police and Crime Commissioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many election payments for services and expenses of returning officers in connection with the 2016 Elections for Police and Crime Commissioners (a) have been settled and (b) remain outstanding; and if he will publish the costs of those payments.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	118788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>The Elections Claims Unit at the Cabinet Office has settled 162 Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) claims to date. There are 231 claims outstanding of which 35 are going through final settlement checks and 100 are on hold pending a response from Local Returning Officers. A report on the cost of the 2016 PCC election will be published once all claims have been settled.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/12/2017 17:13:01 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

805121

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will undertake a consultation on trends in levels of (a) registration and (b) participation in elections of disabled people.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	118793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government is currently in the process of analysing responses to the recent Call for Evidence on the accessibility of elections which sought opinion on the experiences of disabled people in registering to vote and voting at elections. A report of key findings and recommendations will be produced in partnership with the Cabinet Office chaired Accessibility of Elections Working Group to be published in spring 2018.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/12/2017 10:42:15 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

805122

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Care Quality Commission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent discussion she has had with the representatives of the Care Quality Commission on the inclusion of democratic participation in the Commission's assessment framework.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	118794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office is looking to resource work in 2018 with the care community, including the Care Quality Commission, to build a deeper understanding of the barriers to democratic engagement faced by people living in care homes.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/12/2017 10:47:06 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

805123

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ballot Papers: Learning Disability
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 potential benefits of (a) the introduction of easy-read ballot papers with images of candidates and (b) making available ballot papers prior to the day for people with a learning disability.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	118795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government is currently in the process of analysing responses to the recent Call for Evidence on the accessibility of elections. A report of key findings and recommendations will be produced in partnership with the Cabinet Office chaired Accessibility of Elections Working Group which includes organisations that represent people with mental health and learning disabilities such as the Royal Mencap Society, and will be published in spring 2018.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/12/2017 10:45:33 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith