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759605

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 Registration Officers: Finance
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 adequacy of funding for electoral registration officers.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	10117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The majority of electoral registration activity is funded by local authorities across England,<br>Scotland and Wales. Since 2014 the Cabinet Office has provided funding to LAs to cover<br>the additional costs generated by the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration,<br>including a second bidding round after the canvass if initial funding is insufficient to cover<br>costs incurred over the year.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:32:18 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

732704

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Political Parties: Advertising
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 Electoral Commission's powers to regulate online political campaign advertising.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	1014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is currently considering its response to both the Electoral Commission report on campaign spending and to the Lord Hodgson Review into third party campaigning.</p><p> </p><p>Online political campaign advertising is regulated by the Political Parties, Election and Referendums Act 2000, in the same way as offline political campaign advertising.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/07/2017 15:29:16 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

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

732697

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Zero-hours Contracts: St Helens North
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in St Helens North constituency are employed on zero-hours contracts; and how many of those people are (a) aged between 16 and 24 and (b) women.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	1019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 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 Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 29/06/2017 15:00:30 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ1019 v.02 (1).pdf title UKSA Response to PQ1019
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

759608

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	Returning Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to codify the roles and responsibilities of tellers at polling stations.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>Guidance on the roles and responsibilities of tellers is already produced by the Electoral<br>Commission. Tellers must also act in accordance with any further guidance provided by<br>the relevant Returning Officer or their staff. There are currently no plans to put such<br>guidance on a statutory footing.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:51:08 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

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

759609

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 the timetable is to bring forward proposals on the registration of people in (i) universities, (ii) colleges, (iii) residential care homes and (iv) houses in multiple occupation.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government intends to publish a democratic engagement strategy addressing<br>registration issues in late 2017.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:47:57 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

759610

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: Fraud
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 tackle duplicate voter registrations.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office is committed to finding an appropriate approach to reducing the burden of duplicate applications while ensuring that unnecessary barriers to registration are avoided. The fact that millions of people have taken the step of applying to register online shows it was right to introduce the website as part of Individual Electoral Registration.</p><p>We have already taken steps to limit unnecessary duplicate applications to register. For example during the recent general election we added a new page to the website to guide people away from making applications when they did not need to.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:45:55 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

759613

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	Absent Voting
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 potential merits of introducing an attestation arrangement for postal vote applications requiring a signature waiver.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>Sir Eric Pickles’ review of Electoral Fraud, published in August 2016, recommended<br>introducing an attestation requirement for postal vote applications requiring a signature<br>waiver</p><p>The Government supports this recommendation and will be seeking to consider, in<br>conjunction with the Association of Electoral Administrators and the Electoral Commission,<br>how this might be implemented in due course.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:52:30 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

759614

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	Ballot Papers
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 potential merits of removing the absolute requirement to count unused ballot papers as a part of the verification process and replacing that requirement with a requirement to do so only where the returning officer considers it appropriate.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>We consider elections processes and policy on an ongoing basis, and are working with the<br>Association of Electoral Administrators and Electoral Commission to consider the<br>development and improvement of existing processes, including in relation to the<br>procedures for the counting of votes at elections.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:57:22 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith