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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

917355

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	Electoral Register: Costs
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 change the level of funding allocated to local authorities to cover the additional costs of individual electoral registration for future financial years.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	150173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to funding the additional costs of IER until 2020 and has met this commitment in full since IER was introduced in 2014.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 08/06/2018 14:00:07 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

917356

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	Election Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's press release entitled New Electoral Laws proposed to combat intimidation in public life, published on 6 February 2018, what progress has been made on introducing a new electoral offence of intimidating parliamentary candidates and party campaigners.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	150174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>We are in the process of designing a public consultation on the introduction of a new offence in electoral law of intimidating Parliamentary candidates and party campaigners. It will be launched during the summer.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 11/06/2018 14:44:26 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

917362

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	European Parliament: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 May 2018 to Question 143730, on European Parliament: Elections, whether not making preparations to hold European Parliamentary elections in 2019 will affect funding for returning officers; and what steps the Elections Claims Unit is taking to resolve potential issues relating to election claims.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	150176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>Returning officers are funded from the Consolidated Fund for the running of elections at UK wide level. In the absence of a European Parliamentary poll, in the UK, in May 2019 funding will not be required. Therefore, there will be no elections claims in relation to that poll.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 08/06/2018 15:01:42 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

917478

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	Election Offences: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of increasing fines payable for breaches of election rules.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	150179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Vale of Clwyd (Mr Ruane) on Monday 21 May 2018 to written question PQ144210.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 11/06/2018 14:42:28 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

917585

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	Census: Languages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has plans to include in the 2021 census a question that records where multiple languages are being spoken in a household.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	150214
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 15:19:21 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ150214.pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

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

917184

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Marriage: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, in how many marriages was the (a) woman or (b) man between the 16 and 18 years of age for each year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	149646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2018 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 07/06/2018 09:42:21 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ146869 PQ149650.pdf title UKSA response
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

917188

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Marriage: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of marriages involving a party under 18 years old in each of the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	149650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2018 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 grouped question UIN 149646 question first answered 07/06/2018 09:42:21 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

914731

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	Disinformation
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 (a) start-up and (b) operation costs of the Government's rapid rebuttal unit; what the scope of that unit is; and what operations that unit has conducted so far.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	148626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>The rapid response (note: not “rebuttal”) unit monitors news and information being shared and engaged with online, including misinformation and disinformation. It identifies emerging issues and ways to collaborate across Whitehall to respond quickly, accurately and with integrity. The Unit is part of the Government Communications Service (GCS).</p><p>Since launching the unit has provided round the clock monitoring on breaking news stories, ranging from the chemical weapons attack in Syria to domestic stories relating to the NHS and crime, working with press offices to formulate appropriate responses. We will be publishing blogs on the GCS website, outlining the progress of the unit.</p><p>The unit currently has five full time members of staff and four additional members of staff supporting the unit as part of their wider roles.</p><p>We are continually reviewing resource and cost to ensure the unit functions effectively.</p><p><strong>Breakdown of costs</strong></p><p><strong>Human resource</strong></p><p>NOTE: Percentage denotes time on other responsibilities.</p><p>Grade SIO x 2 = 100%</p><p>Grade IO x 2 = 100%</p><p>Grade AIO x 1 = 100%</p><p>Sub total Annual Cost £216,007*</p><p>Grade 6 x 1 = 50%</p><p>Grade 7 x 2 = 50%</p><p>SCS x 1 = 20%</p><p>Sub total Annual Cost £126,818*</p><p>Total Combined: £342,825 per full financial year</p><p>*Costs represent a full financial year with the team at full capacity</p><p>Additional staffing resource is being provided through a programme of full time secondments, funded by individual departments.</p><p><strong>Technology</strong></p><p>Software, technology and development costs come from a central (existing) budget.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 11/06/2018 14:17:43 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead