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48154

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2014
	answering body	Church Commissioners
	answering dept id	9
	answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
	answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners, what levels of stock the Church Commissioners hold of (a) stationery, (b) printer cartridges, (c) treasury tags and other fasteners and (d) other office consumables.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	uin	196198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>The Church Commissioners do not keep inventories of stationery items and office consumables, to calculate the stock levels held would incur a disproportionate cost. The level of stock is monitored regularly, and replenished as necessary to meet staff needs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Sir Tony Baldry question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 93 label Biography information for Sir Tony Baldry
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

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

46951

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2014
	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 parliamentary constituencies in Scotland are part of local authority areas whose electoral registration officers did not reach the required performance indicators on Standard 3 in respect of electors who failed to register to vote.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	Margaret Curran
	uin	195258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that no EROs in Scotland reported not meeting standard 3 at the recent 2013 canvass. 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	3982 label Biography information for Margaret Curran

42308

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2014
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electorial Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	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 authority databases may be consulted by local authority electoral registration officers for the purpose of data matching for the electoral register.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	191357
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2014 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission informs me that Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) are entitled to access any records kept in any form by the local authority which appointed them, for the purpose of meeting their registration duties. These records may include, for example, council tax, social services and education records. Access to these records serves a dual purpose: to identify potential new electors and to check that registered electors continue to be eligible to be registered.</p><p> </p><p>As direct access to records is limited to records held by the appointing authority, in those parts of England where there are two tiers of local government, EROs are currently unable to directly access county council records (such as education records). The Commission understands that the Government is planning to legislate to enable records held by county councils to be shared with EROs for the purposes of maintaining and improving the accuracy and completeness of electoral registers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 18/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

42307

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2014
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electorial Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	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 authority (a) augmented and (b) did not augment Department for Work and Pensions data matching with the electoral register with local authority data matching.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	191356
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that 137 local authorities provided data to them on their local data matching activities following the trial of matching with the DWP in 2013. The table below lists these local authorities. Those that did not provide data may still have carried out local data matching work.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Reported on local data matching activities</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amber Valley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Argyll &amp; Bute</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ashfield</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aylesbury Vale</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barking &amp; Dagenham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bassetlaw</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bath &amp; North East Somerset</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bexley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blaby</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolsover</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bournemouth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bracknell Forest</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brighton &amp; Hove</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bromley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bromsgrove</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Broxbourne</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Broxtowe</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Burnley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Calderdale</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Canterbury</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carlisle</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Bedfordshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ceredigion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheltenham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Christchurch</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Conwy</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coventry</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dartford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daventry</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Denbighshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire Dales</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dudley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dumfries &amp; Galloway</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Dorset</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Dunbartonshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Lindsey</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Lothian</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Northamptonshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Renfrewshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eastleigh</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eden</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Edinburgh, City of</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Elmbridge</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Flintshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Forest of Dean</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gosport</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gravesham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Guildford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gwynedd</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Halton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hambleton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hammersmith &amp; Fulham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harborough</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harrogate</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hastings</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Havant</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Herefordshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>High Peak</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hillingdon</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hyndburn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Inverclyde</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ipswich</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kensington and Chelsea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kettering</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston upon Thames</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lewisham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincoln</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Luton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mansfield</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Medway</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Melton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlothian</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Milton Keynes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mole Valley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Neath Port Talbot</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Forest</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newport</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Dorset</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Kesteven</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Lincolnshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Somerset</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Tyneside</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Warwickshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West Leicestershire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Orkney Islands</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pendle</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poole</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Purbeck</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redcar &amp; Cleveland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redditch</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Renfrewshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Richmond upon Thames</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Richmondshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rossendale</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rotherham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rushcliffe</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rushmoor</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sandwell</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sedgemoor</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sefton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shepway</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shropshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Derbyshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Gloucestershire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Kesteven</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Ribble</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southend-on-Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Edmundsbury</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St. Helens</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire Moorlands</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stockport</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey Heath</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swale</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swindon</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tamworth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tandridge</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thanet</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thurrock</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tonbridge &amp; Malling</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Walsall</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warrington</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Watford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Waverley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Berkshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Dunbartonshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Lindsey</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Lothian</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wigan</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wiltshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wolverhampton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wychavon</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wyre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

42034

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2014
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electorial Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	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 in Great Britain failed the Standard Three performance standard for the completeness and accuracy of electoral registration records in 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	191114
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission informs me that this information was published and tabled in a written statement to the House on 31 March. The Commission has written to the hon. Member with a copy of the report.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 29/04/2014 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

42847

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2014
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electorial Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	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 (a) did and (b) did not complete local data matching after the confirmation dry run with the Department for Work and Pensions' database and electoral register.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	191816
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that this information was provided to the Hon. Member in the answer to his Question 191356.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 02/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

43159

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2014
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electorial Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	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, whether the Student Loans Company database has been used for purposes of maximising student registration.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	192114
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that the Student Loans Company (SLC) database was used during two data matching pilot projects which were organised by the Cabinet Office and evaluated by the Commission.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These pilots aimed to test the usefulness of giving Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) access to information held on national, public databases in order to improve the accuracy and completeness of their electoral register by identifying unregistered people.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In their evaluation of both pilots the Commission concluded that the Student Loans Company data was of limited use in identifying unregistered people.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Commission's two evaluation reports can be found here: <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/146836/Data-matching-pilot-evaluation.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/146836/Data-matching-pilot-evaluation.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/156189/Data-mining-pilot-evaluation-report.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/156189/Data-mining-pilot-evaluation-report.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 02/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

48037

	registered interest
	date	09/04/2014
	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, what the voter registration rate was for 18 year olds in each of the last 30 years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	196131
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it does not hold figures on the registration rates for 18 year olds in each of the last 30 years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, it does hold estimates of registration rates for age groups from several studies conducted on the accuracy and completeness of the electoral registers in Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Register</p></td><td><p>Age band</p></td><td><p>Registration rate</p></td><td><p>Study conducted by</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>April 2011</p><p>(Great Britain)</p><p> </p></td><td><p>17-18</p></td><td><p>55%</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Electoral Commission (EC)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>19-24</p></td><td><p>56%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2001</p><p>(England and Wales)</p><p> </p></td><td><p>18-24</p></td><td><p>84%</p></td><td><p>EC and Office for National Statistics</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 1991</p><p>(Great Britain)</p><p> </p></td><td><p>18-19</p></td><td><p>88%</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Office of Population Census and Surveys – Social Survey Division</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 1981</p><p>(Great Britain)</p><p> </p></td><td><p>18-19</p></td><td><p>87%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane