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45358

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2014, Official Report, columns 622-3W, on the Electoral Register: fraud, if the Electoral Commission will make an assessment of (a) the effect of the views of politicians and (b) statements by the Electoral Commission on public perception of electoral registration.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	193832
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it does not have any current plans to carry out research to make such an assessment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 03/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

45359

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2013, Official Report, columns 455-6W, on the Electoral Register, for what reasons the electoral commission has no plans to undertake a direct assessment of registration rates in specific university towns and cities.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	193834
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it will undertake analysis of the impact of the transition to IER for all local authorities, which will include all university towns and cities, throughout the transition period. This will include publishing data by local authority, and in some cases by electoral ward, at several points during the transition period.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 03/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

45360

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2014, Official Report, columns 622-3W, on the Electoral Register: fraud, what comparative assessment he has made of the level of concern about electoral fraud in the UK and other EU countries.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	193833
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it regularly monitors comparative international research on electoral matters. Comparing the UK with other countries around the world, Gallup polls place the UK in the top third of countries in terms of confidence in the honesty of the electoral process.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The most recently available Gallup data from 2007-08, showed that 40% of UK respondents said they did not have confidence in the honesty of elections in the UK. This was slightly lower than the findings from Germany (44%) and Italy (43%), but significantly higher than those from Denmark (5%), Finland (8%) and Sweden (8%).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Full findings are at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/111691/Worldwide-Views-Diverge-About-Honesty-Elections.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.gallup.com/poll/111691/Worldwide-Views-Diverge-About-Honesty-Elections.aspx</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 03/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

45361

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2013, Official Report, columns 455-6W, on the Electoral Register, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Electoral Commission's review of public engagement strategies.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	193835
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that its Report, titled ‘Readiness for the transition to Individual Electoral Registration' was published on 31 March with a copy placed in the House Library. The Commission's report includes the conclusions of its assessment of all Electoral Registration Officers' (EROs') public engagement strategies, which found that all EROs have the right plans in place to identify the challenges for their particular local area and what mechanisms they will use to engage with residents to maximise registration. The Commission has also written to the honourable member with a copy of its report.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 03/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

45958

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2013, Official Report, columns 611-2W, on electoral registration officers, when the Electoral Commission will make available its final assessment of performance for 2013; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	194423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it published its report, titled ‘Readiness for the transition to Individual Electoral Registration', which included its assessment of ERO performance in 2013, on 31 March, and tabled a written statement informing the House of this. It also wrote to the honourable member with a copy of the report and placed a copy in the House of Commons library. A copy of the Commission's statement can be found on the Parliament website: <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-vote-office/March_2014/31st-March-2014/14.Speakers-Performance-Standards.pdf" target="_blank">www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-vote-office/March_2014/31st-March-2014/14.Speakers-Performance-Standards.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Commission informs me that it is in the process of carrying out a detailed analysis of EROs' electoral registration data from the 2013 canvass, following which it will publish its final assessment of EROs' performance in 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

45959

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2013, Official Report, columns 611-2W, on electoral registration officers, which local authorities failed to meet performance standard 1 on using local government databases, in each year for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	194403
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that the Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) who did not meet performance standard 1 in each year from 2008 to 2010 are shown in the table below. No EROs have been assessed as not meeting this standard in 2011, 2012 and 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table: EROs not meeting Performance Standard 1</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><thead><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Barnsley</p></td><td><p>Bradford</p></td><td><p>Barnsley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Berwick-upon-Tweed</p></td><td><p>Nottingham</p></td><td><p>Nottingham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blaby</p></td><td><p>Sefton</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackburn with Darwen</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Brentwood</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Chester-le-street*</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham*</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Harborough</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Ipswich</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Derbyshire</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>North Lanarkshire**</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Sutton</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>South Lanarkshire**</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Three Rivers</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Windsor and Maidenhead</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Weymouth and Portland</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Walsall</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Chester-le Street and Durham are now part of County Durham unitary authority.</p><p> </p><p>**North and South Lanarkshire are covered by one ERO</p><p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission also informs me that it published its report, titled ‘Readiness for the transition to Individual Electoral Registration', which included its assessment of ERO performance in 2013, on 31 March, and wrote to the honourable member with a copy of the report. The report explains that all EROs reported that they were meeting or exceeding standard 1 in 2013, and that the Commission is in the process of conducting a detailed analysis of EROs' electoral registration data from the 2013 canvass, following which it will publish its final assessment of EROs' performance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

45960

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2014, Official Report, column 620W, on the electoral register, what progress the Electoral Commission has made in improving registration rates of attainers; and what measures the Electoral Commission uses to judge its performance of increasing registration rates of attainers.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	194422
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) are responsible for maintaining the electoral register in their local areas. The Electoral Commission supports them in this work in a number of ways, including by targeting its performance standards to help ensure that they understand the particular challenges in their registration area and develop plans to address these and improve registration rates.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Commission refers the hon. gentleman to its earlier reply of 29 January 2014 in which it outlined the steps it was taking to register attainers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to isolate registration form downloads from the Commission's <a href="http://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.aboutmyvote.co.uk</a> website by demographic, however it does regularly review what media channels are most used by attainers, for example Video On Demand (VOD). This ensures that its campaigns are targeted as effectively as possible.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

45961

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, with which (a) mobile telephone companies, (b) voluntary groups and (c) travel card providers the Electoral Commission is working to improve registration rates of young people.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	194344
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it continues to work to identify partners for its work on IER. As agreements are put in place, it will make these available on its website and will inform the honourable member when the first batch is published.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

46364

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, which local authorities have failed performance standard 3 on house-to-house enquiries; how many times they have failed; and how many times a Cabinet Office regional delivery manager has intervened.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	194793
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that in 2013 five Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) reported that they did not meet performance standard 3: Mid Devon; Taunton Deane; Torridge; West Devon; and West Somerset. The table below shows the number of times these EROs have not met this standard.</p><p> </p><p>Table: Number of times those EROS not meeting standard 3 in 2013 have not met this standard.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><thead><tr><td><p>ERO</p></td><td><p>Number of times not met</p></td><td><p>Years in which not met</p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mid Devon</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>2010, 2011, 2012, 2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Taunton Deane</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2011, 2012, 2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Torridge</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2012, 2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Devon</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>2009, 2010, 2011, 2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Somerset</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>2009, 2011, 2012, 2013</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Commission is in the process of conducting a detailed analysis of EROs' electoral registration data from the 2013 canvass, following which it will publish its final assessment of EROs' performance in 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Cabinet Office has established a network of Regional Delivery Managers to monitor EROs' readiness for the transition to individual electoral registration in 2014. However, the Commission does not have specific details of the activities undertaken by these all of these officials.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

46365

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many and what proportion of households which had a door step contact under performance standard 3 were called on (a) once, (b) twice and (c) three times in each local authority in the UK which passed that performance standard in the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	194794
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it does not collect information about the number of visits that Electoral Registration Officers' staff make to individual households as part of their activities to maintain the electoral registers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane