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381349

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2015
	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 consideration the Government has given to continuing to use the matching system between the electoral register and Government databases that was used in the transition towards Individual Electoral Registration.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	2641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The matching of electoral registers against Government and local authority data, referred to as ‘confirmation,’ was a one off exercise to help simplify the change to Individual Electoral Registration (IER). It resulted in 87% of existing electors being automatically transferred to the new registers under IER without needing to take any action. Data matching continues to form an important part of the system for voter registration, in verifying new applications, but also locally in identifying and verifying applications from eligible electors. We will keep under review the scope for data to further improve voter registration.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 22/06/2015 16:18:37 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

381350

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2015
	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 assessment he has made of the effect on the number of people on the electoral register of the transition to Individual Electoral Registration.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	2651
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission published their analysis of the electoral registers used for the elections on 7 May 2015. The full report can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/190464/IER-June-report.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/190464/IER-June-report.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 22/06/2015 16:21:21 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

381351

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2015
	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 assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the (a) national and (b) local match system used in the transition to Individual Electoral Registration.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	2652
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office published results in November 2014 of the nationwide data matching process referred to as ‘confirmation’ between government records and local data with electoral registers during the transition to Individual Electoral Registration.</p><p>The report is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/using-data-matching-to-confirm-electors-in-great-britain" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/using-data-matching-to-confirm-electors-in-great-britain</a></p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 2653 question first answered 22/06/2015 16:23:23 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

381352

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2015
	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 (a) national and (b) local match rates between the electoral register and government databases were used in the transition towards Individual Electoral Registration (i) overall and (ii) in each local authority and parliamentary constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	2653
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office published results in November 2014 of the nationwide data matching process referred to as ‘confirmation’ between government records and local data with electoral registers during the transition to Individual Electoral Registration.</p><p>The report is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/using-data-matching-to-confirm-electors-in-great-britain" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/using-data-matching-to-confirm-electors-in-great-britain</a></p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 2652 question first answered 22/06/2015 16:23:23 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

1020752

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Trade Agreements: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate she has made of the effect on the Northern Ireland economy of potential changes to the trade relationship with the rest of the UK as a result of the backstop provisions in the EU Withdrawal Agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	199865
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>As was set out in paragraphs 49 and 50 in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/joint-report-on-progress-during-phase-1-of-negotiations-under-article-50-teu-on-the-uks-orderly-withdrawal-from-the-eu" target="_blank">Joint report on progress during phase 1 of negotiations under Article 50 TEU on the UK’s orderly withdrawal from the EU</a>:</p><p> </p><p>&quot;The United Kingdom remains committed to protecting North-South cooperation and to its guarantee of avoiding a hard border. Any future arrangements must be compatible with these overarching requirements. The United Kingdom's intention is to achieve these objectives through the overall EU-UK relationship. Should this not be possible, the United Kingdom will propose specific solutions to address the unique circumstances of the island of Ireland. In the absence of agreed solutions, the United Kingdom will maintain full alignment with those rules of the Internal Market and the Customs Union which, now or in the future, support North-South cooperation, the all island economy and the protection of the 1998 Agreement. 50.</p><p> </p><p>In the absence of agreed solutions, as set out in the previous paragraph, the United Kingdom will ensure that no new regulatory barriers develop between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom, unless, consistent with the 1998 Agreement, the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly agree that distinct arrangements are appropriate for Northern Ireland. In all circumstances, the United Kingdom will continue to ensure the same unfettered access for Northern Ireland's businesses to the whole of the United Kingdom internal market.”</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government’s assessment is that there will be minimal change to businesses as we are committed to unfettered access for Northern Ireland to its most important market, Great Britain.</p><p><br></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 19/12/2018 10:59:29 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose previous answer version 91310 answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

422737

	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

349837

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Absent Voting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many postal votes were rejected nationally at the 2015 General Election; and what steps he is taking to ensure that people whose postal vote was rejected on that occasion will not encounter the same problem in the future.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	1996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government does not collate such information centrally.</p><p>In the previous Parliament, the Government legislated to require Electoral Registration Officers to write out to postal voters whose ballot papers were not included in the count because details on their postal voting statement could not be verified. These notifications give an explanation for the rejection and should be sent in the three months immediately following the poll.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 16/06/2015 15:11:55 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

422848

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the effects of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 on the activities of trades unions during the 2015 general election period.
	tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
	tabling member printed	Martin John Docherty
	uin	12773
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2015 answer text <p>Section 39 of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 provides for a post-election review of the operation of the regulatory regime governing third parties at the 2015 General Election.</p><p>Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE is currently conducting this independent review.</p><p>Ministers must lay a copy of his report before Parliament and publish it by November 2016.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 12774 question first answered 28/10/2015 15:12:29 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

422849

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the effects of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 on the activities of charitable bodies during the 2015 general election period.
	tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
	tabling member printed	Martin John Docherty
	uin	12774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2015 answer text <p>Section 39 of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 provides for a post-election review of the operation of the regulatory regime governing third parties at the 2015 General Election.</p><p>Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE is currently conducting this independent review.</p><p>Ministers must lay a copy of his report before Parliament and publish it by November 2016.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 12773 question first answered 28/10/2015 15:12:29 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

523385

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Ombudsman
	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 bringing forward proposals for a modern public services ombudsman in the last three months.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	39718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government is making good progress and will publish draft legislation in due course.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 15/06/2016 09:43:42 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest