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	registered interest
	date	15/10/2015
	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, what progress he has made on increasing the level of electoral registration.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	901708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>Since June 2014, over 11 million people have applied to register to vote, three quarters using the new, ultra-convenient online system which takes less time than boiling an egg. At the General Election there were 400,000 more entries on the register than before, and thanks to Individual Electoral Registration (IER), 96 out of every 100 entries have been confirmed as genuine.</p><p>We’re now focusing on the remaining 4 out of 100. By December, Electoral Registration Officers will have attempted to contact each of them nine times over 18 months. Any genuine voters will be confirmed on the register, and the remaining inaccurate entries, of people who have moved away, dies or were registered fraudulently, will be removed.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 21/10/2015 15:29:03 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

521087

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Redbridge
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate the Government has made of the number of eligible people who are not on the electoral register in the London Borough of Redbridge.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	38303
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>The last study of the completeness and accuracy of the electoral register was published by the Electoral Commission in July 2014, and found that Parliamentary registers were 85.9% complete and 86.4% accurate. This was based on the last registers published under the old household system of registration in February/March 2014. The next study of this kind will be published by the Commission this summer and will be based on the registers published in December 2015. The completeness and accuracy studies provide a nationally representative picture, and do not allow for analysis at a local authority level, such as the London Borough of Redbridge.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 06/06/2016 15:36:30 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

517818

	registered interest
	date	05/05/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Political Parties: Finance
	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 implications for his policies of the Electoral Commission's 2013 recommendation that political parties that receive and spend less than £500 annually should be exempt from submitting a full statement of accounts.
	tabling member constituency	Banbury
	tabling member printed	Victoria Prentis
	uin	36690
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission published a report “a regulatory review of the UK’s party and electoral finance laws” in June 2013 that made 50 recommendations. The report’s first recommendation proposed changes to the reporting requirements for parties that receive and spend less than £500 annually. Such a change would require primary legislation. The Government recognises that there is a balance to be struck between reducing the burden on smaller parties and maintaining transparency of the funding of all parties which contest elections in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 10/05/2016 12:52:33 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis

384343

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Young People
	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 educate young people in secondary schools about electoral registration.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	3295
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The statutory programme of study for citizenship includes how citizens can actively participate in the UK’s system of government and took effect in September 2014.</p><p>The Cabinet Office has, in partnership with youth organisations, developed learning resources, including Rock Enrol! which are available to download for free and can be used in schools to encourage young people to participate in democracy and register to vote.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 29/06/2015 12:09:00 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

384344

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2015
	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 steps he is taking to increase electoral registration in (a) London and (b) the rest of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	3296
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>Over £14 million has been invested over the last two financial years to support the cost of activities aimed at increasing the levels of voter registration, including in the run up to the General Election.</p><p>The Electoral Commission (EC) published on 18 June an analysis of the electoral registers used for the elections on 7 May. It showed that the numbers of entries on these registers had increased by 1% compared with the last ones published prior to the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration. The Government will keep under review its approach to electoral registration in light of the EC’s report and its findings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 29/06/2015 12:11:13 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

386950

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what targets his Department has set for the electoral registration of young people; and whether his Department has plans to assess the potential merits of any auto-enrolment schemes for that purpose.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	5201
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>Individual Electoral Registration (IER) and online registration were introduced in Great Britain last year, replacing the outdated system of household registration. Online registration has proved popular: over three quarters of the 9.6 million applications to register to vote made since June 2014 have been submitted online. Since June 2014, over 2.2 million applications have been received from 16-24 year olds.</p><p><br> The Government strongly supports the principle underlying IER, that people must make an individual application to register to vote, and is currently examining the results of prompted enrolment schemes such as the one recently undertaken at Sheffield University, to see if they have wider application.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 09/07/2015 10:04:11 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

383775

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Voting Rights: Young People
	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 potential effect of extending the franchise in all elections to 16 and 17 year olds on voter turnout.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	3147
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p>Turnout is affected by a wide range of factors and cannot therefore be forecast with any degree of accuracy.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 23/06/2015 15:54:29 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

416598

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	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 change in the number of electors in each constituency and as a result of the provisions of the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2015 (S.I., 2015, No. 1520).
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	8544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>Individual electoral registration is essential to tackle electoral fraud and ensure a clean democratic process. 96% of electors in Great Britain have already transferred to the new IER registers. The latest figures on electors yet to be registered, broken down to local authority level, are available here:</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> </p><p> </p><p>These figures do not take into account the current annual canvass, which will help encourage the remaining eligible retained electors to register individually ahead of December. As the Electoral Commission has said, many of these retained entries are likely to be redundant, for example because of electors moving home. Figures at a Parliamentary constituency level are not available.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 8453 question first answered 11/09/2015 10:06:40 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

416601

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	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 change in the number of electors on the electoral register in each (a) constituency and (b) local authority when the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 (Transitional Powers) Order 2015 (S.I., 2015, No. 1520), dated 15 July 2015, are brought into force; and which 10 local authorities will see the biggest fall in the number of electors and what those losses will be.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	8453
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>Individual electoral registration is essential to tackle electoral fraud and ensure a clean democratic process. 96% of electors in Great Britain have already transferred to the new IER registers. The latest figures on electors yet to be registered, broken down to local authority level, are available here:</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> </p><p> </p><p>These figures do not take into account the current annual canvass, which will help encourage the remaining eligible retained electors to register individually ahead of December. As the Electoral Commission has said, many of these retained entries are likely to be redundant, for example because of electors moving home. Figures at a Parliamentary constituency level are not available.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 8544 question first answered 11/09/2015 10:06:40 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

506261

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans his Department has to encourage voter registration amongst students before the EU referendum.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	32900
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government has made it easier and more flexible for students to register to vote than ever before with the introduction of online registration. Students are now able to register at both term time and home addresses in just three minutes. Since June 2014, 3.8 million people aged 16-24 have applied to register to vote with 2.8 million of these applications made online. The Government is also working with Higher Education and Further Education bodies including the Association of Colleges and Universities UK to explore voter registration among students further.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 13/04/2016 14:15:46 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake