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972272

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
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	What recent estimate he has made of the number of eligible voters not on the electoral register.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	906841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>The register for the 2017 General Election, at 46.8 million, was the largest ever.</p><p>While there are no recent reliable estimates of the number of people not on the electoral register, we know that Individual Electoral Registration has transformed the ease with which people can make an application to register.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 12/09/2018 15:00:26 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

972297

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Voting Rights: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the potential cost to the public purse of removing the 15-year time limit on the right of British citizens living overseas to vote in UK parliamentary elections.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	173936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2018 answer text <p>British citizens living abroad retain strong links with the United Kingdom. Their stake in our country must be respected and this Government will not deny them the opportunity to have their say in the way their country is governed. The Government is committed to introducing “votes for life”, scrapping the rule that bars British citizens who have lived abroad for more than 15 years from voting.</p><p> </p><p>Glyn Davies’ Private Member’s Bill on Overseas Electors successfully passed its second reading in the House of Commons on 23 February 2018. A detailed Impact Assessment considering costing for the Overseas Electors Bill has now been published.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 10/10/2018 16:02:50 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

972309

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Census: Sexuality and Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Census (Amendment) Bill before the Scottish Parliament, whether he has plans to include in the 2021 Census White Paper, proposals to include questions on (a) sexual orientation and (b) transgender status for England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	174064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 09/10/2018 13:38:08 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ174064 - Sarah Champion.pdf title UKSA response
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

971503

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Voting Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to increase the level of participation in elections.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	172613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to building a democracy that works for everyone. To promote democratic engagement, National Democracy Week was held in July 2018 and the Cabinet Office is leading on three projects funded by the Suffrage Centenary Fund Programme. These are the Democracy Ambassadors Scheme to recruit and train youth democracy ambassadors, the development and publication of a toolkit for parliamentarians to engage young people, and a new secondary schools resource which will be released later this year.</p><p> </p><p>More widely, on 30 August 2018 the Government published the response to its Call for Evidence on Access to Elections. This includes a series of actions to be taken forward to remove identified barriers to further support disabled people to participate in elections.</p><p> </p><p>We also expect to boost democratic participation through work on voter identification and the measures proposed in the Government’s consultation “Protecting the Debate: Intimidation, Influence and Information.” Democratic participation is more likely when citizens can cast their vote in confidence. Proposed measures to tackle intimidation will help ensure voters can make a free choice at the ballot box, based on an informed discussion focused on policy and principle, rather than on misinformation or abuse.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 20/09/2018 13:12:19 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

971504

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of voters who were turned away from polling stations at the local government elections 2018 in the voter ID pilot areas because they did not have appropriate identification.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	172614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to making sure that our electoral system is fit for the future. Vulnerabilities cannot be allowed to undermine the integrity of our democracy.</p><p> </p><p>The success of the voter ID pilots proves that this is a reasonable and proportionate measure and voters were fully aware of the changes on polling day. Our evaluation shows that the overwhelming majority of electors who turned up to vote did so with the right documents and had confidence in knowing how to cast their vote.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/electoral-fraud/voter-identification-pilot-schemes" target="_blank">https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/electoral-fraud/voter-identification-pilot-schemes</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 14/09/2018 13:41:38 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

971505

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electorate: Personation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many cases of voter impersonation have been identified in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	172615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission collates and publishes information on allegations of electoral fraud at elections each year. Reports for 2014 - 2017 polls are available on the Electoral Commission website and a report covering polls held in 2018 will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 14/09/2018 13:42:17 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

969488

registered interest
date	07/09/2018
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 September 2018 to Question 169500 on Electoral Register, whether the Government plans to collate the information from local Electoral Registration Officers at the local authority level to evaluate the potential effect of the legislative changes on the level of anonymous voter registration.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave her on Thursday 6 September 2019.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 12/09/2018 15:37:58 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

968172

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Constituencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish the final Boundary Commission proposals; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	170817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government received the reports from the four Boundary Commissions on 5 September 2018. Once the reports have been laid before Parliament we will make them publicly available, which we expect will be on Monday 10 September to allow for the reports to be printed.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 10/09/2018 15:38:21 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

968313

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
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, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the access to elections working group is appropriately resourced to implement the actions set out in the Government's response to Call for evidence: access to elections, published in August 2018.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	170894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>The Access to Elections Working Group is appropriately resourced.</p><p> </p><p>We received over 250 responses from the Call for evidence and have published a report of key findings and actions to be taken forward for polls reserved to the UK Government to ensure that our elections are as accessible as possible, and to remove any barriers that exist to democratic participation.</p><p> </p><p>Implementation of the action is split between disabled people's’ organisations (in widening awareness), Government (in any potential legislative change), the Electoral Commission (in revision and development of guidance) and Returning Officers (in training of staff and running of polls).</p><p> </p><p>The Group’s membership includes leading charities and key electoral stakeholders who will work together to better support disabled people’s participation in our democratic process.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 14/09/2018 11:11:35 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

968315

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Constituencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Government plans to lay the Boundary Commission's recommendations before the House.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	170709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government received the reports of the four Boundary Commissions on 5 September 2018 and we expect that the reports will be laid before Parliament and made publicly available on Monday 10 September 2018 to allow for the reports to be printed.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 10/09/2018 15:36:44 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane