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381890

registered interest
date	17/06/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Heraldry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will review the operation of the Lord Lyon King of Arms Act 1592 in respect of the restrictions it places on the registration of certain types of badge or crest.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	2991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>The Minister for the Cabinet Office has received no such representations. This issue concerns the Lord Lyon King of Arms in his judicial capacity and is therefore a devolved matter.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 3274 question first answered 25/06/2015 16:49:50 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

381349

registered interest
date	16/06/2015
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 consideration the Government has given to continuing to use the matching system between the electoral register and Government databases that was used in the transition towards Individual Electoral Registration.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	2641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The matching of electoral registers against Government and local authority data, referred to as ‘confirmation,’ was a one off exercise to help simplify the change to Individual Electoral Registration (IER). It resulted in 87% of existing electors being automatically transferred to the new registers under IER without needing to take any action. Data matching continues to form an important part of the system for voter registration, in verifying new applications, but also locally in identifying and verifying applications from eligible electors. We will keep under review the scope for data to further improve voter registration.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 22/06/2015 16:18:37 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

381350

registered interest
date	16/06/2015
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 effect on the number of people on the electoral register of the transition to Individual Electoral Registration.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	2651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission published their analysis of the electoral registers used for the elections on 7 May 2015. The full report can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/190464/IER-June-report.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/190464/IER-June-report.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 22/06/2015 16:21:21 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

381351

registered interest
date	16/06/2015
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 effectiveness of the (a) national and (b) local match system used in the transition to Individual Electoral Registration.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	2652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office published results in November 2014 of the nationwide data matching process referred to as ‘confirmation’ between government records and local data with electoral registers during the transition to Individual Electoral Registration.</p><p>The report is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/using-data-matching-to-confirm-electors-in-great-britain" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/using-data-matching-to-confirm-electors-in-great-britain</a></p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 2653 question first answered 22/06/2015 16:23:23 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

381352

registered interest
date	16/06/2015
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 (a) national and (b) local match rates between the electoral register and government databases were used in the transition towards Individual Electoral Registration (i) overall and (ii) in each local authority and parliamentary constituency.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	2653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office published results in November 2014 of the nationwide data matching process referred to as ‘confirmation’ between government records and local data with electoral registers during the transition to Individual Electoral Registration.</p><p>The report is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/using-data-matching-to-confirm-electors-in-great-britain" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/using-data-matching-to-confirm-electors-in-great-britain</a></p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 2652 question first answered 22/06/2015 16:23:23 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

381353

registered interest
date	16/06/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to increase the deposit necessary to stand in local elections.
tabling member constituency	Rochdale
tabling member printed	Simon Danczuk
uin	2654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>Deposits are not currently required for candidates to stand in local government elections and the Government does not have any plans to introduce such a provision.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 22/06/2015 16:27:00 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4059 label Biography information for Simon Danczuk

381355

registered interest
date	16/06/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to prevent candidates standing in both local and general elections when those elections are held on the same day.
tabling member constituency	Rochdale
tabling member printed	Simon Danczuk
uin	2655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to change the current arrangements in this area.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 23/06/2015 15:56:49 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose previous answer version 7533 answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4059 label Biography information for Simon Danczuk

381535

registered interest
date	16/06/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Police and Crime Commissioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to specify that the next elections of police and crime commissioners are conducted under the first-past-the-post system.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	2656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 requires Police and Crime Commissioner elections to use the Supplementary Vote System. As with all electoral processes, this will be kept under review.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 06/07/2015 15:57:14 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose previous answer version 7540 answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

353862

registered interest
date	12/06/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	General Election 2015
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was accrued to the public purse as a result of candidates losing their deposits at the 2015 General Election.
tabling member constituency	Rochdale
tabling member printed	Simon Danczuk
uin	2296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p>Every candidate standing in the General Election must pay a deposit of £500, which is forfeited if they fail to gain five per cent of the vote in the constituency in which they are standing.</p><p>The total amount that is to be returned to the Consolidated Fund as a result of candidates losing their deposit at the 2015 General Election is £773,000. This represents 1,546 candidates that lost their deposit.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 17/06/2015 13:46:38 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4059 label Biography information for Simon Danczuk

349549

registered interest
date	10/06/2015
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 is taking to increase electoral registration.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Harry Harpham
uin	1887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>Over £14 million has been invested over the last two financial years to support the completeness and accuracy of the register, including in the run up to the General Election.</p><p>The Electoral Commission is due to publish an analysis of the electoral registers used for these elections in June and the Government will consider further steps in the light of this report.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 16/06/2015 15:09:16 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4477 label Biography information for Harry Harpham