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521522

registered interest
date	25/05/2016
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 assessment he has made of the implications for the Government's policy on voter registration of the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Democratic Participation, entitled Getting the Missing Millions on to the Electoral Register, published in April 2016.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	38458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>I have set out an ambitious vision of how electoral registration could change over the course of this Parliament, building on the successful introduction of Individual Electoral Registration and online registration. The overarching aims are to ensure registers are as complete and accurate as they can be and that the system of electoral registration is as efficient as possible. We welcome the views of the All- Party Parliamentary Group and Bite the Ballot set out in their report which is helping inform our plans for a programme of work aimed at realising this vision.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 08/06/2016 16:11:08 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

516173

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
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 assessment his Department has made of the potential effectiveness of auto-enrolment onto the electoral roll for all UK citizens eligible to vote.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	David Mackintosh
uin	35763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>I have considered a range of proposals from local authorities and civil society organisations that could change how registration is currently delivered.</p><p>We are keen to explore further possibilities in this area but are concerned there may be tension between some forms of automatic registration and the principles underpinning Individual Electoral Registration, namely individual responsibility and ownership over registering to vote.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 09/05/2016 07:05:22 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4431 label Biography information for David Mackintosh

514715

registered interest
date	21/04/2016
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 assessment his Department has made of the feasibility of introducing a centralised, national electoral register.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	David Mackintosh
uin	35075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>Electoral registers are compiled and maintained locally by Electoral Registration Officers primarily for the purposes of running Parliamentary and local elections in their area. A centralised, national electoral register would not necessarily help them do this, and would potentially create concerns about how government handles citizens personal data, so we have made no assessment of this kind.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 26/04/2016 12:00:36 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4431 label Biography information for David Mackintosh

506264

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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 cost of supporting electoral registration by (a) local authorities and (b) other groups was in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	32872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>Since financial year 2012/13 the Cabinet Office has provided funding to local authorities and civil society organisations to support the implementation and delivery of Individual Electoral Registration. Prior to financial year 2010/11 electoral registration policy was under the remit of the Ministry of Justice. The Cabinet Office does not hold any relevant financial data prior to 2010.</p><p>Local Authorities are under a statutory obligation to provide Electoral Registration Officers with funding and resources to support electoral registration more generally. Local Authorities are funded from a block grant that is allocated by the Department for Communities and Local Government.</p><p>The table below notes the funding provided by the Cabinet Office to local authorities and other groups and organisations in Great Britain. This includes core funding to support local authorites in the transition to IER, and the upgrade of hardware, such as printers, to support the new A3 registration forms .The figures also include funding that was allocated to local authorities and other groups to support efforts to increase levels of registration between financial years 2010/11 and 2015/16.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2010-2011</p></td><td><p>2011-2012</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Local Authorities</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£9,115,416</p></td><td><p>£39,537,279</p></td><td><p>£25,858,168</p></td><td><p>£74,510,862</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Groups</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£56,545</p></td><td><p>£216,247</p></td><td><p>£1,933,759</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£2,191,401</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p /><p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 19/04/2016 16:44:35 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

506272

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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 representations he has (a) received and (b) made on the introduction or piloting of a system of automatic electoral registration.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	33030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2016 answer text <p>I have considered a range of proposals from local authorities and civil society organisations that could change how registration is currently delivered. The Government is committed to further modernising and improving electoral registration, building on the successful transition to Individual Electoral Registration (IER). We are keen to explore further possibilities in this area but are concerned there may be tension between some forms of automatic registration and the principles underpinning IER, namely individual responsibility and ownership over registering to vote.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 14/04/2016 10:26:15 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

506273

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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, how much funding was (a) allocated and (b) spent by his Department's Democratic Engagement Team in each of the last six years; and what assessment has been made of the efficiency and effectiveness of that team.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	33031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The Democratic Engagement Team, which was created in 2013, has enabled a number of civil society organisations to make an important contribution during the transition to Individual Electoral Registration. Overall, this support has contributed to over 15 million applications to register to vote since June 2014. An overview of the maximising registration funding by year can be found below:</p><p>2012/2013 - £56,545</p><p>2013/2014 - £4.2m</p><p>2014/2015 - £9.8m</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 18/04/2016 10:11:07 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

506274

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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, whether the Government plans to introduce or pilot a system of automatic electoral registration.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	33032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>I have considered a range of proposals from local authorities and civil society organisations that could change how registration is currently delivered. The Government is committed to further modernising and improving electoral registration, building on the successful transition to Individual Electoral Registration (IER).</p><p>We are keen to explore further possibilities in this area but are concerned there may be tension between some forms of automatic registration and the principles underpinning IER, namely individual responsibility and ownership over registering to vote.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 18/04/2016 17:00:27 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

480619

registered interest
date	18/03/2016
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 individual voter registration.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	David Mackintosh
uin	31752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2016 answer text <p>The transition to IER is now complete and has been a great success. Over 14 million applications have been made to register since the introduction of IER, almost three quarters of them online. Ghost entries have been removed, which means the electoral registers are more accurate and less vulnerable to fraud than before. The Electoral Commission is expected to publish its assessment of the completeness and accuracy of the first full electoral registers under IER, published in December 2015, this summer.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 01/04/2016 11:26:28 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4431 label Biography information for David Mackintosh

475584

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
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 he has taken to investigate the reasons for changes in the level of electoral registration in each local authority.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	31217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission is expected to publish its assessment of the completeness and accuracy of the first full electoral registers under IER this summer. We expect this will provide a breakdown for England, Scotland and Wales but not for each local authority.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 21/03/2016 15:36:29 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

475585

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
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 information his Department has collected from electoral registration officers on the number of names removed from electoral registers in each local authority for each permissible reason in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	31239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission recently published its report on the state of the December 2015 electoral registers. It is available here: <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/197516/IER-Assessment-December-2015-registers.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/197516/IER-Assessment-December-2015-registers.pdf</a></p><p>The report uses the best data available and outlines the changes to the register, including deletions, between December 2014 and December 2015 and the reasons for those changes. The report also explains that the data collection was a joint exercise between the Electoral Commission, the Cabinet Office, Electoral Registration Officers and electoral management software suppliers.</p><p>Previous reports for additional years, when the Cabinet Office was not involved in data collection, can be accessed here: <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/performance-standards/performance-in-running-electoral-registration" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/performance-standards/performance-in-running-electoral-registration</a>.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 21/03/2016 15:36:15 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero