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347056

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	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 estimate he has made of the number of people (a) entitled and (b) registered to vote in each parliamentary constituency at the May 2015 general election.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	185
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics has published electoral statistics for those registered to vote based on the registers published on 1 December 2014 in England and Wales and 28 February in Scotland. They can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/pop-estimate/electoral-statistics-for-uk/2014/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/pop-estimate/electoral-statistics-for-uk/2014/index.html</a></p><p>The Electoral Commission made its assessment of the registers used for the General Election on 7 May and plan to publish their report in June.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 04/06/2015 11:50:24 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

419829

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2015
	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, if he will publish an updated electoral register, including each (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency, with the number of carry-forward electors who have not yet registered under individual electoral registration.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	10863
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>Individual Electoral Registration (IER) is essential in making the system of electoral registration more secure and less vulnerable to fraud. 96% of electors in Great Britain have already transferred to the new IER registers. As the Electoral Commission has said, many of these retained entries are likely to be redundant, for example where electors have moved home. The latest figures on electors retained from registers before IER, broken down to local authority and regional level, are available online:</p><p><a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0007/190465/IER-May-2015-electoral-registers-data.xlsx" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0007/190465/IER-May-2015-electoral-registers-data.xlsx</a></p><p>They show that the number of carry forwards had declined by two thirds between summer 2014 and May 2015. These figures do not take into account of the work of the annual canvass, which is currently underway, or extra Government funding available to Local Authorities to target remaining carry forward electors specifically. We expect the number of carry forward entries to decline further as a result.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 14/10/2015 15:33:00 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

419830

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department has issued to electoral returning officers on the release of electoral registration statistics in response to Freedom of Information requests.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	10864
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government has not issued guidance to electoral returning officers on the release of electoral registration statistics in response to Freedom of Information requests.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 14/10/2015 15:32:44 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

454051

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Credit Reference Agencies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) guidance his Department issues and (b) regulations are in place on the provision of electoral roll data to credit reference agencies.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	28021
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission provides detailed guidance to Electoral Registration Officers on access and supply of the full electoral register, including by credit reference agencies.</p><p>The regulations on the supply of electoral roll data to credit reference agencies are set out in The Representation of the People (England and Wales)(Amendment) Regulations 2002. Under Regulation 114, credit reference agencies registered under Part III of the Consumer Credit Act and carrying on the business of providing credit reference services may only use the full electoral register for specified purposes; namely for checking a person’s identity if they apply for credit, and for the prevention of money laundering fraud. Electoral Registration Officers are entitled to charge credit reference agencies a small fee for copies of the full register, to cover administration costs.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 29/02/2016 14:01:20 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

454052

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Credit Reference Agencies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what checks his Department has in place to ensure that credit reference firms do not sell-on electoral roll data.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	28018
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>Under the Regulation 115 of the Representation of the People (England and Wales)(Amendment) Regulations 2002, anyone who is supplied with the full register is not permitted to sell a copy to any person, disclose any information contained in it, or use it for anything apart from the specified purpose for which the full register has been supplied. In contravening this provision, a person would be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, which currently stands at £5000.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 01/03/2016 11:09:35 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

454053

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Credit Reference Agencies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many complaints his Department has received on the sale of electoral roll data by credit reference firms.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	28019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>Available records show that in the last calendar year the Cabinet Office received one letter of complaint about access to the electoral register by credit reference agencies, and nine letters of complaint about the sale of the edited electoral register.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 01/03/2016 10:38:07 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

454054

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Credit Reference Agencies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department issues to credit reference firms on handling data on people who are on the closed electoral register.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	28020
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The Information Commissioner’s Office provides guidance to both private and public sector organisations to help them understand their obligations under the Data Protection Act. Organisations wishing to process personal data in the UK, including credit reference agencies, must register with the ICO and comply with the DPA’s eight data protection principles. Among other things, these principles require personal data to be processed fairly and lawfully; to be accurate and up-to-date; not to be kept for longer than is necessary; and to be processed in accordance with the rights of the data subjects under the DPA.</p><p> </p><p>The ICO’s website provides public information on credit reference agencies’ use of the electoral register at (<a href="https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/credit/" target="_blank">https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/credit/</a>).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 01/03/2016 10:37:13 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

475598

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Elections: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects the report on electoral fraud by the Government's Anti-Corruption Champion to be published.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	31070
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>Sir Eric Pickles will make his recommendations as soon as he is able. 66 written submissions are under consideration, as well as evidence provided in meetings with specific people and at a seminar of academics, stakeholder organisations and political parties.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 21/03/2016 15:36:02 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

479052

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Credit Reference Agencies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the effect on electoral registration rates of introduction of a requirement to pass on electoral roll data to credit reference firms.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	31470
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>Copies of the electoral register have been made available for sale in one form or another since at least 1832. Credit reference agencies purchase the electoral register because it provides proof to lenders that applicants for credit do in fact live at the address given and that they are not attempting to obtain credit fraudulently using a false name and address. Given the importance of credit in a modern economy, the then Government concluded in 2002 that this was in the public interest. The credit reference agencies are precluded by law from doing anything else with the electoral data, unless the data is also included in the edited register, from which individuals can opt out.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 24/03/2016 10:21:12 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh