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908995

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Voting Rights: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the Government's policy is on the voting rights of non-UK EU citizens with (a) temporary or (b) settled status in the UK after (i) 29 March 2019 and (ii) 31 December 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
	uin	146068
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to my previous answer 129820 of 28 March 2018.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 146069 question first answered 11/06/2018 14:41:06 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

908996

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Voting Rights: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to amend Section 2(1)(c) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 in relation to the voting rights of non-UK EU citizens.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
	uin	146069
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to my previous answer 129820 of 28 March 2018.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 146068 question first answered 11/06/2018 14:41:06 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

914842

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	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, how many non-UK EU citizens living in the UK voted in the 2018 local government elections.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	148878
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>Information on the number of citizens from EU Member States other than the UK who voted at the local elections is not recorded.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 11/06/2018 16:44:29 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

914860

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	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, what the total cost to the public purse was of conducting the 2018 local government elections.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	148889
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>The costs of local elections are not collated centrally. The funding of local elections is a matter for each local authority.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 11/06/2018 15:23:42 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

917593

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2018
	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, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK before 1 January 1973 who have indefinite leave to remain.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	150078
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 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 11/06/2018 15:15:23 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ150078 Holding Response.pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

914854

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to replicate the Northern Ireland electoral registration schools initiative to increase electoral registration among people aged 16 in England.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	148886
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>We have no plans to introduce this measure in England, where arrangements are not comparable to Northern Ireland. Many Electoral Registration Officers in England already work with schools and colleges in their local area to promote registration. The Government fully supports such activity. We are also supporting the registration of young people in England through an upcoming suffrage resource for secondary schools and through the recruitment of Youth Democracy Ambassadors.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 11/06/2018 16:05:29 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

914836

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	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 the total cost was of the transfer to Individual Electoral Registration; and what proportion of such costs was borne by local government.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	148874
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>The total cost of the Electoral Registration Transformation Programme, which introduced Individual Electoral Registration (IER) in 2014, was £116.2 million. Funding for the Programme was provided by central Government. The figure includes the cost of funding provided by central Government to local authorities to cover the additional costs associated with IER compared to the previous household system. The figure also includes the costs of establishing the IER digital service and certain voter registration activities.</p><p>Since the transition to IER, central Government has continued to provide direct funding to local authorities to cover the additional costs of IER compared to the previous household system.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 11/06/2018 14:45:02 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

914978

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	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 steps the Government is taking to increase voter registration within Commonwealth communities in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	148902
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to building a fair, secure and inclusive democracy that works for everyone. The December 2017 Democratic Engagement Plan sets out our plans for doing this. We expect action under the Plan to benefit members of Commonwealth communities in the UK, alongside a wide range of other groups of eligible citizens.</p><p>At the same time, Electoral Registration Officers have a duty to maintain a complete and accurate register. They share responsibility for engaging citizens with electoral registration with the Electoral Commission, which has a statutory duty to promote public awareness</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 11/06/2018 14:39:26 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

918432

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2018
	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 the difference is between the number of voters on the electoral register compared to the electoral register data used for the current parliamentary boundary review.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	150709
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>Parliament previously agreed legislation that requires the 2018 Boundary Review to be based on the December 2015 electoral registers. Data published by ONS shows that the number of electors on these registers was 44,722,004. ONS has recently published data showing that there were 46,148,035 electors on the December 2017 electoral registers.</p><p>Registers used for a boundary review are necessarily a snapshot and the registers have always continued to change while a review takes place.</p><p>Without the current parliamentary boundary reviews, MPs could end up representing constituencies based on data that is over 20 years’ old, disregarding significant changes in demographics, house building and migration.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 11/06/2018 15:21:22 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

915141

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Elections: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the implications are for the Government's policies of recommendation 10 of the report of the Association of Electoral Administrators entitled It’s time for urgent and positive Government action: The AEA’s review of the 2017 local government elections and the UK Parliamentary general election, published in September 2017, on the Government undertaking a full examination of the benefits of and issues presented by electronic forms of counting in order to assess effectiveness where it is currently permitted and to consider suitability for use at other types of election.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	148933
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>The total cost of the Electoral Registration Transformation Programme, which introduced Individual Electoral Registration (IER) in 2014, was £116.2 million. Funding for the Programme was provided by central Government. The figure includes the cost of funding provided by central Government to local authorities to cover the additional costs associated with IER compared to the previous household system. The figure also includes the costs of establishing the IER digital service and certain voter registration activities.</p><p>Since the transition to IER, central Government has continued to provide direct funding to local authorities to cover the additional costs of IER compared to the previous household system.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 11/06/2018 14:46:17 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith