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	registered interest
	date	17/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the news release entitled Thousands of voters turned away from polling stations in mandatory ID trials, published by the Electoral Reform Society on 4 May 2018, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the estimate by the Electoral Reform Society that 3,981 people were turned away from polling stations across the five pilot areas; and if he will make an estimate of what that figure would be in the event that the scheme was rolled out nationally.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	145358
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2018 answer text <p>Requiring some form of identification to vote was successfully tested at the local elections on 3 May by five local authorities: Bromley, Gosport, Swindon, Watford and Woking. The overwhelming majority of people cast their vote without a problem and the success of the pilots proves that this is a reasonable and proportionate measure to take, and there was no notable adverse effect on turnout.</p><p>The estimate by the political lobby group the Electoral Reform Society is exaggerated and inaccurate. Data from Returning Officers across all five participating local authorities shows that there were 340 electors asked to return to the polling station with the correct identification who did not subsequently return. This represents 0.16% of the votes cast.</p><p>This reflects that such identification was a brand new requirement, and a few electors may not have read the publicity that they were sent about the pilots.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">However, the experience of Northern Ireland, where paper ID has been required since 1985 and photo ID since 2003, illustrates that there should be no issue with voters not knowing - once the requirement has become established.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Electoral Commission is responsible for carrying out an independent, statutory evaluation of the pilot schemes and will publish its findings in the summer of 2018; this will be an opportunity to review how the publicity arrangements operated and could be improved. This is one of the benefits of piloting the policy.</ins></p><p> </p><p>Requiring some form of identification to vote was successfully tested at the local elections on 3 May by five local authorities: Bromley, Gosport, Swindon, Watford and Woking. The overwhelming majority of people cast their vote without a problem and the success of the pilots proves that this is a reasonable and proportionate measure to take, and there was no notable adverse effect on turnout.</p><p>The estimate by the political lobby group the Electoral Reform Society is exaggerated and inaccurate. Data from Returning Officers across all five participating local authorities shows that there were 340 electors asked to return to the polling station with the correct identification who did not subsequently return. This represents 0.14% of the votes cast.</p><p>This reflects that such identification was a brand new requirement, and a few electors may not have read the publicity that they were sent about the pilots.</p><p> </p><p>However, the experience of Northern Ireland, where paper ID has been required since 1985 and photo ID since 2003, illustrates that there should be no issue with voters not knowing - once the requirement has become established.</p><p>The Electoral Commission is responsible for carrying out an independent, statutory evaluation of the pilot schemes and will publish its findings in the summer of 2018; this will be an opportunity to review how the publicity arrangements operated and could be improved. This is one of the benefits of piloting the policy.</p><p> </p><p>There was an error in the data previously presented. Whilst the individual totals of votes cast in each local authority were correct, the overall total was incorrectly summed. The previously quoted total of votes cast of 206,741 should have been 234,506. As a result, the percentage of people who did not return as a proportion of number of votes cast was overstated, incorrectly given as 0.16%. The correct figure is 0.14%. The attached table contains the correct data.</p><p> </p><p>As part of its planned evaluation, the Electoral Commission will continue to collect and analyse a wide range of data and information about the pilots, including public opinion surveys, data from polling stations, turnout and postal voting data, and polling station staff surveys. We will continue to work with the Electoral Commission and other partners to ensure that the emerging data gives an accurate picture of how ID pilots were delivered.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith previous answer version 59632 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith 60423 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith question first answered 25/05/2018 15:13:05 question first ministerially corrected 01/06/2018 09:26:25 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name Pre evaluation voter ID polling station data (1) (1).xlsx title Pre evaluation vote
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

926575

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of the additional jobs in the UK labour market have been filled by (a) UK nationals and (b) non-UK nationals since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	154608
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p><strong>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</strong></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 21/06/2018 09:28:06 question first ministerially corrected 25/07/2018 10:43:35 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ154608 PQ154609.pdf title UKSA response previous answer version 64806 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ154608 PQ154609 Holding Response.pdf title UKSA response
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

929363

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Location
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) Government organisations and (b) departmental offices are based in (i) towns and (ii) cities in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	156622
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply and I would be depositing a copy in the Library of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 27/06/2018 13:20:44 question first ministerially corrected 08/10/2018 10:09:49 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ156622 (1).pdf title UKSA response previous answer version 66043 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ156622 Holding Response.pdf title UKSA response
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

931177

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Catering and Hospitality Industry: Vacancies
	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 current number of vacancies in the (a) hospitality and (b) food preparation industries.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	157008
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply and will be depositing the response to the libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 28/06/2018 09:37:56 question first ministerially corrected 25/07/2018 10:43:27 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ157008.pdf title UKSA Response previous answer version 67062 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ157008 Holding Response.pdf title UKSA response
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

934264

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Employment: Statistics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has made an assessment of the validity of the inclusion of people on zero hour contracts in official employment statistics.
	tabling member constituency	Blackburn
	tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
	uin	160234
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 06/07/2018 11:51:46 question first ministerially corrected 08/10/2018 10:09:36 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ160234 (1).pdf title UKSA response previous answer version 68028 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ160234 Holding Response.pdf title UKSA response
	tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

1006207

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the contribution of the vaping industry is to the economy.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	190816
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 21/11/2018 12:50:19 question first ministerially corrected 12/12/2018 17:10:40 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ190816 (1).pdf title UKSA Response previous answer version 86293 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1017199

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the number of EU nationals who will migrate to the UK in each of the next 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	197369
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 04/12/2018 15:56:53 question first ministerially corrected 10/12/2018 19:50:23 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ197369 - Uploaded.pdf title UKSA response previous answer version 89940 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ197369 - Holding.pdf title UKSA response
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1017481

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Pay: Greater Manchester
	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 estimate of the number of people in each parliamentary constituency in Greater Manchester that are paid the (a) national minimum wage and (b) national living wage.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	197641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority.<del class="ministerial"> I have asked the Authority to reply.</del><ins class="ministerial"> Once I receive their response, I will place a copy in the Library.</ins></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 05/12/2018 10:30:22 question first ministerially corrected 08/01/2019 11:25:03 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ197641 - Response.pdf title UKSA Final Response previous answer version 90097 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ197641 holding response.pdf title UKSA response
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1047782

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2019
	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, what assessment he has made of the ease with which people travelling abroad can register to vote by proxy.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	212340
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The cost to taxpayers of delivering the 2016 EU Referendum was £129.1 million. A breakdown of that cost is provided in the report published by the Electoral Commission.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The then Government undertook publicity on EU membership ahead of the referendum. This cost an additional £9.3 million.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The total cost to taxpayers was thus £138.4 million</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Electors who are registered to vote but will be travelling abroad during the time of an election are able to apply for a proxy vote for that particular poll or polls. The application must be made in writing, it must include specific information about the elector and their proxy, and the reason for applying for a proxy.</ins></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 29/01/2019 09:42:51 question first ministerially corrected 07/02/2019 16:30:44 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith previous answer version 97720 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1050117

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Life Expectancy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the healthy life expectancy is for people living in (a) Easington constituency, (b) County Durham and (c) England.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	213325
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 31/01/2019 15:56:28 question first ministerially corrected 12/02/2019 11:10:47 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ 213325.pdf title UKSA Final Response previous answer version 98923 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ2013325 holding response.pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris