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759606

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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 recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the UK voter registration system.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	10165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The most recent formal assessment of register quality, based on the 1 December 2015 registers<br>and published in July 2016, found that individual electoral registration boosted the accuracy of the<br>register by 4 per cent</p><p>Alongside individual registration, the successful introduction of online registration has transformed<br>the way citizens can register. It now takes just a few minutes to apply to register and nearly 30<br>million citizens have taken the opportunity to do so in the last three years. In large part thanks to<br>online registration, the parliamentary register used for the 2017 general election was the largest<br>ever at nearly 47 million</p><p>2.9 million applications were submitted between the calling of the election and the registration<br>deadline date, with 622,000 applications coming on deadline day itself</p><p>The government has continued to modernise the registration process and to make it more<br>accessible, as underscored, for example by recent policy commitments on making it easier for<br>survivors of domestic abuse to register anonymously.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:54:41 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

759612

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the timetable is to bring forward proposals to improve data-sharing in the voter registration process.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	10232
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>Electoral Returning Officers (EROs) already have wide powers to access data to improve<br>the quality of the register. The Cabinet Office is working with administrators and their<br>representatives and the Electoral Commission to investigate additional potential use of<br>data to aid EROs in their registration duties.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:39:16 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

759617

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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, if he will conduct a review of all election and electoral registration deadlines which includes the consideration of deadlines for the registration of electors, overseas electors and absent voting.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	10266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government keeps elections processes and policy under review and Cabinet Office<br>officials are actively discussing timetables and other processes with the Association of<br>Electoral Administrators and the Electoral Commission to understand the issues and<br>identify practicable solutions that put electors first.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:40:39 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

759621

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the (a) current use of electronic forms of electoral counting and (b) potential merits of introducing such electronic forms of counting for other types of elections.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	10271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>Electronic counting is used in only a small number of polls. However, in considering<br>whether to extend the use of electronic counting, we would need to take into account the<br>cost, accuracy and integrity of adopting it more widely. In previous polls electronic counting<br>has been more expensive and has not been as quick as expected in some circumstances</p><p>We therefore currently have no plans to further its use.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:44:58 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

760037

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Elections: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to ensure that all costs properly incurred in (a) the administration of elections, including electoral registration costs directly attributable to the election, are reimbursed to returning officers and their employing local authorities and (b) delivering electoral registration are automatically provided to local authorities without the need to revert to the justification-led bidding process.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	10326
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The process for reimbursing properly incurred costs for electoral events is overseen by the<br>Election Claims Unit. Once claims have been received and properly scrutinised, expenses<br>necessarily incurred for the effective and efficient delivery of the poll will be reimbursed</p><p>The Election Claims Unit aims to settle claims within 12 months of them being received.</p><p>The majority of electoral registration activity is funded by local authorities across England,<br>Scotland and Wales. The law does not allow for claims for electoral events to include costs<br>of electoral registration.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:54:00 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

760201

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	General Election 2017
	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 assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings of the report, Turned Out 2017, published by the RNIB on problems experienced by blind and partially sighted voters at the 2017 General Election; and if he will implement that report's recommendations before local authority elections take place in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	105016
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>I welcome the report by the RNIB on the experiences of blind and partially sighted people<br>at the 2017 General Election. The Government will consider these recommendations as<br>part of our current Call for Evidence on the experience of disabled people in registering to<br>vote and voting and will look at the evidence as a whole in planning how to take forward<br>any changes.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:52:54 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

770059

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many women have died from ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome in each year since 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	107658
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I<br>have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:55:41 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name 107658 v.02.pdf title UKSA response
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

771361

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2017
	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 recent comparable assessment the Government has made in the volume of guidance produced by the Electoral Commission for the registration of UK citizens overseas and the registration of homeless people; and whether his Department plans to review such guidance.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	107935
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government has not made any assessment of the volume of Electoral Commission<br>guidance since this is a matter for the Electoral Commission.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:37:40 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

771365

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Personation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many cases of impersonation took place in each parliamentary constituency and local authority in each of the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	107940
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>This Government is committed to creating a clear and secure democracy that works for<br>everyone and, as part of this, wants to ensure that fraud is stamped out in elections. Any<br>instance of electoral fraud is one instance too many.</p><p>The Electoral Commission publishes annual analysis of electoral fraud on their website:</p><p>http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information- by-subject/electoral- fraud/data-<br>and-analysis?<br>Further breakdown and analysis of information on electoral fraud is available in the<br>reports.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:42:01 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

771369

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2017
	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, which local authorities have expressed interest to his Department in conducting a voter ID pilot in polling stations for the May 2018 local elections.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton West
	tabling member printed	Chris Green
	uin	108068
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The May 2018 voter ID pilot schemes are part of a programme of reform that will enhance<br>public confidence in our elections and strengthen electoral integrity. The opportunity to<br>pilot voter ID in May 2018 was offered to all local authorities in Great Britain and on 16<br>September we announced that Woking, Gosport, Bromley and Watford have committed to<br>do so. In addition, Tower Hamlets will be piloting measures to improve the integrity of the<br>postal vote process.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:50:49 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green