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1128632

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2019
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	Electoral Commission: Complaints
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many complaints were lodged with the Electoral Commission in (a) March 2019, (b) April 2019 and (c) May 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	257795
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>The Commission receives a broad range of public enquiries through a number of routes; these are formally classified as complaints where they seek to challenge the Commission’s own conduct, procedures or decision-making, where statutory routes of appeal do not exist.</p><p>Five complaints were logged in March; none in April; and 726 in May. The steep increase in May relates primarily to a coordinated correspondence campaign, on the issue of the difficulties in registering to vote, and in voting, experienced by Non-UK citizens of EU Member States at the European Parliamentary elections.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 05/06/2019 15:47:21 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1123386

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2019
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	European Parliament: Elections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, for what reasons the deadline for EU citizens to change their status to vote in European elections in the UK was set to 12 working days before polling day rather than six in guidance issued by the Commission.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	248046
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>The deadline for EU citizens returning a declaration indicating that they wish to vote in a European Parliamentary election in the UK is 12 working days before polling day, not 6 working days. This is set out in: the Representation of the People Act 1983 (as amended); the Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001 (as amended); and the European Parliamentary Elections (Franchise of Relevant Citizens of the Union) Regulations 2001.</p><p>As was the case in 2014, the Commission has issued guidance to Electoral Registration Officers reflecting this legislation.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 02/05/2019 14:41:28 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

754876

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	Ballot Papers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many and what proportion of postal ballot papers were declared null and void in each of the last five general elections.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	6350
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission collected data from Returning Officers for all UK constituencies following the UK Parliamentary general elections in 2001, 2005, 2010 and 2015. The numbers of postal votes rejected by Returning Officers were as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postal ballots issued</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postal ballots returned</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postal ballots rejected</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postal ballots rejected (% of those returned)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001</p></td><td><p>1,758,055</p></td><td><p>1,402,073</p></td><td><p>31,189</p></td><td><p>2.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>5,362,501</p></td><td><p>4,110,039</p></td><td><p>146,247</p></td><td><p>3.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>6,996,006</p></td><td><p>5,818,853</p></td><td><p>221,988</p></td><td><p>3.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>7,592,735</p></td><td><p>6,516,228</p></td><td><p>214,155</p></td><td><p>3.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Commission is collecting data from Returning Officers following the UK Parliamentary general election in June 2017. This data will be published in September 2017.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 05/09/2017 09:47:43 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

805117

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many claims for services and expenses of returning officers in connection with the EU referendum are (a) have been settled and (b) remain outstanding; and if he will publish the cost of those payments.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	118789
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>Over two thirds of expenses claims from Counting Officers at the EU Referendum have been finalised. The remaining, outstanding claims are currently being processed. Once all claims have been processed and approved, the Commission will publish the information on its website.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 14/12/2017 16:09:25 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

865111

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2018
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	General Election 2017
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many complaints the Commission received in relation to breaches in election law after (a) during and (b) after General Election 2017; and how many of those complaints (i) related to electoral fraud or other breaches, (ii) have been resolved, (iii) have been passed to the police and (iv) have resulted in prosecutions.
	tabling member constituency	Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
	tabling member printed	Simon Hart
	uin	132978
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission receives both formal and informal complaints across a range of areas of electoral law through a range of different routes. It is not, therefore, possible to provide comprehensive data in response to parts of this question. Allegations of electoral fraud relating to offences under the Representation of the People Act (RPA)1983 are matters for the police. When the Commission is made aware of allegations of electoral fraud they advise the complainant to contact the police directly, and they may also pass on details of the allegation to the relevant police force.</p><p>On 2 March 2018 the Commission published information provided by police forces about cases of electoral fraud recorded during 2017. The data shows that police forces across the UK recorded a total of 336 cases of alleged electoral fraud relating to offences under the Representation of the People Act (RPA) 1983. Police forces also recorded 69 other complaints about elections which did not relate to allegations of electoral fraud offences.</p><p>At the end of January 2018, when the data was updated by police forces, there had been one conviction following investigation by the police, and suspects in eight further cases had accepted police cautions. Police forces were awaiting prosecution advice in relation to a further seven cases, in two cases court proceedings had been initiated and one case resulted in an acquittal. Forty four cases remained under investigation by the police.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 20/03/2018 10:08:31 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
	tabling member	3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart

731508

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	Electoral Register
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many instances of voters being wrongly excluded from the electoral list were identified at the 2015 General Election; and in which constituencies such exclusions took place.
	tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
	tabling member printed	John Mann
	uin	302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission collected data from Returning Officers for all UK constituencies following the UK Parliamentary General Election on 7 May 2015. The data shows that an estimated 12,803 people tried to vote on polling day and were unregistered.</p><p>This number is based on data from 418 constituencies, as not all Returning Officers provided data and of those that did, some of the data provided was approximate. Figures for each constituency are available on the Electoral Commission’s website at <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0011/191648/UKPGE-turnout-postal-rejected-admin-amended-WEB.xlsx" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0011/191648/UKPGE-turnout-postal-rejected-admin-amended-WEB.xlsx</a></p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 17/07/2017 16:07:01 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
	tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

731524

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	Absent Voting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many postal votes were discounted because the signature or date of birth was not accepted by returning officers in each constituency in the (a) 2015 and (b) 2017 General Election.
	tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
	tabling member printed	John Mann
	uin	433
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission collected data from Returning Officers for all UK constituencies following the UK Parliamentary general election on 7 May 2015. The numbers of postal vote statements rejected by Returning Officers due to mismatched signatures and mismatched dates of birth were as follows:</p><p>Postal Vote statements rejected due to mismatched signatures: 46,840</p><ul><li>Postal Vote statements rejected due to mismatched dates of birth: 38,148</li><li>Postal Vote statements rejected due to mismatched both dates of birth and signatures: 16,912</li></ul><p>Figures for each constituency are available on the Electoral Commission’s website at <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0011/191648/UKPGE-turnout-postal-rejected-admin-amended-WEB.xlsx" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0011/191648/UKPGE-turnout-postal-rejected-admin-amended-WEB.xlsx</a></p><p>The Electoral Commission is currently collecting data from Returning Officers in relation to the 2017 general election, which will include the number of rejected postal votes. The Commission will publish this in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 17/07/2017 16:04:32 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
	tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

685582

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2017
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	Electoral Commission: Security
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many security passes into the Electoral Commission are issued to people (a) not directly employed by and (b) who are not civil servants who work in the Electoral Commission.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	63280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2017 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission leases four access controlled offices – in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast – none of which are located in civil service buildings. All Electoral Commission members of staff – including fixed contract and temporary or agency staff – are issued with security passes for the office that they are based in.</p><p>a) Numbers of passes issued fluctuate over the year. Passes are only issued to staff and contractors who need to be in an office for a sustained period to carry out their work for the Electoral Commission. Guests are collected from a reception desk and escorted out of an Electoral Commission office by a member of staff.</p><p>b) The Electoral Commission is a non-Crown body which means there are no civil servants who work in the Electoral Commission.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 16/02/2017 12:24:05 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

758288

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2017
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	Electoral Register
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many voters were wrongly excluded from the electoral list at the 2017 General Election; and in which constituencies those exclusions took place.
	tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
	tabling member printed	John Mann
	uin	9114
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission does not hold data on the number of voters wrongly excluded from the electoral register at the 2017 UK general election.</p><p> </p><p>The electoral register is managed by individual Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) at local authorities. They are legally responsible for determining if an application to register to vote is from an eligible individual.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 11/09/2017 15:23:44 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
	tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

754874

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	Electoral Register
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how much the Commission has spent on direct advertising to increase registration of (a) young people aged 18 to 25 and (b) members of the expatriate community.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	6348
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission undertakes voter registration and public awareness campaigns in the lead up to each major poll, including advertising targeted directly at recognised under-registered groups such as people aged 18 to 25 and UK citizens living overseas.</p><p> </p><p>The tables below gives totals for advertising placed explicitly and exclusively to target these two audiences in the two campaigns run in the lead up to polls in May and June 2017. For the May elections, the figures include advertising targeted at 16-17 year olds given the lower voting age for these polls in Scotland.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Poll</p></td><td><p>16/18 to 25 year olds</p></td><td><p>UK citizens living overseas</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>May 2017 local elections</strong></p></td><td><p>£37,500</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>UK general election</strong></p></td><td><p>£8,100</p></td><td><p>£14,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>People within these categories are also likely to see advertising which reaches them as part of different target groups (such as recent home movers), wider age groups (such as 18-35 year olds) or indeed advertising targeted at the general population. It is not possible to disaggregate these figures and include them here.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 05/09/2017 09:41:55 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane