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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

43163

	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, what the electoral registration figures were in each ward in the recent confirmation dry run conducted in East Lothian constituency.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Fiona O'Donnell
	uin	192011
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that the confirmation dry run involved matching all entries on the electoral registers against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System database. Entries would be marked as green if they matched with DWP, amber if they were a partial match or red if there was no match.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The ward results for the East Lothian constituency were as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Ward</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Green matches</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amber matches</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Red matches</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dunbar and East Linton</p></td><td><p>78.7%</p></td><td><p>5.1%</p></td><td><p>16.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fa'side</p></td><td><p>80.9%</p></td><td><p>3.0%</p></td><td><p>16.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haddington and Lammermuir</p></td><td><p>77.9%</p></td><td><p>5.6%</p></td><td><p>16.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Musselburgh East and Carberry</p></td><td><p>79.5%</p></td><td><p>2.6%</p></td><td><p>17.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Musselburgh West</p></td><td><p>74.5%</p></td><td><p>2.5%</p></td><td><p>23.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Berwick Coastal</p></td><td><p>78.4%</p></td><td><p>5.3%</p></td><td><p>16.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Preston/Seton/Gosford</p></td><td><p>82.2%</p></td><td><p>2.0%</p></td><td><p>15.8%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Results for all wards are available on the Commission's website here: <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0003/163146/Confirmation-dry-run-2013-Results-Wards.xls" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0003/163146/Confirmation-dry-run-2013-Results-Wards.xls</a></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 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	3964 label Biography information for Fiona O'Donnell

43155

	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, what the differential turnout was between the highest and lowest income group in each general election for which such data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	191926
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it does not hold this data. Some information on how turnout varies by socio-demographic factors is available from an analysis of public opinion polls carried out by Ipsos MORI around general elections. The data for 2010 can be found here: <a href="http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/2613/How-Britain-Voted-in" target="_blank">http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/2613/How-Britain-Voted-in</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

43162

	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, what recent assessment the Electoral Commission has made of reasons for differential turnout between socio-economic groups.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	191999
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it has not made its own assessment of the reasons for differential turnout between socio-economic groups. However, the Commission is aware of the fact of differential turnout between not only social but demographic and other groups and targets its campaigns accordingly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For instance, the Commission ensures that its campaigns reach young people by advertising on channels used by that demographic, including Facebook and video-on-demand services, and that its television adverts are frequently placed during programmes with a high viewership amongst young people.</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

43160

	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, what discussions the Electoral Commission has had with the Office for National Statistics and other Government departments on the size of the UK population eligible to vote but not registered (a) before and (b) after the publication of its report, Great Britain's Electoral Registers 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	192109
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that its 2011 report on Great Britain's electoral registers provided an assessment of the accuracy and completeness of the electoral registers in force in December 2010 and April 2011 using a house-to-house survey methodology.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Commission always intended to also carry out an assessment of the same registers by matching them against census data. It has therefore been having discussions with the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the National Records of Scotland (NRS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) since 2010.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Commission expects to publish reports on England, Wales and Scotland in summer 2014. The timing of the work in Northern Ireland is still the subject of discussions with NISRA.</p><p> </p><p> </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

43158

	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, what assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the future propensity to vote of those electors who (a) use and (b) do not use their vote in the first general election after reaching the age of 18 years old.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	191932
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it has not made its own assessment of this issue, but is aware of the studies that have examined it.</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

43156

	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, if he will list the registration rates for students in higher education institutions in the UK in ranked order for the most recent period available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	191927
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it does not hold data on the registration rates of students by higher education institution.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Commission has conducted an analysis of the results of the dry run of the confirmation process to be used during the transition to IER. This indicated that students were one of the groups less likely to be matched against the Department of Works and Pensions database.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This analysis and all the associated data is available to EROs across the country. This has allowed them to identify areas, such as those with large student populations, where they may need to target more of their resources in order to maintain or improve levels of registration.</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

43157

	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, if he will list the local authority databases used by electoral registration officers in the dry run for individual electoral registration for the 10 authorities with the (a) best and (b) worst registration rates.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	191928
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that electoral registration officers (EROs) had their own discretion to use any local databases to which they had access to support their work on local data matching. After the dry run was complete the Commission conducted a voluntary survey of EROs on their use of local data following the dry run of confirmation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Not all EROs responded to that survey so it is not possible to provide a full answer regarding all EROs with the best and worst registration rates. However, amongst the replies received, the following databases were most frequently cited:</p><p> </p><p>· Council tax database</p><p> </p><p>· Council tax benefits</p><p> </p><p>· Housing benefits</p><p> </p><p>· Registrar of births and deaths</p><p> </p><p>· Housing list/Tenancy records</p><p>· Residential homes records</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 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

43161

	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, if he will list each local authority database used by electoral registration offices in the dry run for individual electoral registration (IER) for the 10 local authorities with the (a) best and (b) worst registration rates during the IER dry run.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	192119
	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 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

43131

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which responsibilities for tackling animal welfare crimes are managed by (a) her Department and (b) non-governmental organisations.
	tabling member constituency	Derby North
	tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
	uin	191996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2014 answer text <p>The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is the lead Government department for policy and legislation in relation to animal welfare, including offences under the Animal Welfare Act 2006. The police and local authorities have powers to enforce that Act, but any person or organisation (such as the RSPCA) can initiate criminal proceedings under it.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the Government's funding for individual police forces to tackle all types of crime, including wildlife crime, the Home Office and DEFRA both contribute funding to support the work of the National Wildlife Crime Unit, the national police unit dedicated to tackling wildlife crime. And where wildlife crimes are sufficiently serious, organised or complex, the National Crime Agency will ensure that partners across the law enforcement community benefit from its coordination, tasking and intelligence arrangements, as well as being able to access its specialist capabilities. Furthermore, the Home Office plays a key role in the Government's efforts to tackle the illegal wildlife trade, which is a serious transnational criminal industry worth billions of pounds each year. I was therefore pleased that, at the recent London Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference which I attended, world leaders from over forty countries made a commitment to eradicate the trade.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office also regulates the use of living animals in scientific procedures in England, Scotland and Wales under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 26/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
	tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson