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1130888

registered interest
date	10/06/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Centenarians: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in Northern Ireland have reached their hundredth year in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	262265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not hold this information centrally.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/06/2019 13:03:22 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1130747

registered interest
date	07/06/2019
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 estimate he has made of the number of people below 18 years of age who are married.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	261472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 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 Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 12/06/2019 16:58:14 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name PQ 261472.pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1130343

registered interest
date	06/06/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Minimum Wage
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 number of people earning less than (a) £7.70 per hour and (b) £8.21 per hour.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	261121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 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 Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 11/06/2019 11:02:55 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name PQ261121.pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1130524

registered interest
date	06/06/2019
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, what estimate he has made of the number of non-UK EU citizens living in the UK who were unable to register to vote in the European parliamentary elections in (a) Slough (b) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	261299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>Cabinet Office does not hold information on the number of non-UK EU citizens, resident in<br>the UK, who do or do not register to vote in European Parliamentary elections</p><p>Estimates of the number of eligible people on the registers for electoral events are<br>published by the Electoral Commission following each poll, but have not previously<br>included a breakdown of the numbers of EU citizens eligible to vote. These reports are<br>available online at: www.electoralcommission.org.uk.</p><p>Each Electoral Registration Officer maintains a register for their own local area. Some<br>headline registration statistics by area are collated and published annually by the Office for<br>National Statistics, however, this does not include a breakdown of the numbers of EU<br>citizens registered to vote. The total number of UK local government electors – which<br>includes EU citizens – in the year to December 2018 was 47.8 million</p><p>The latest bulletin is available at:<br>www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/elections/electoralregistration.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 11/06/2019 11:04:12 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1130155

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
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, what discussions he has had with representatives of local authorities on EU citizens that were prevented from voting in the 2019 European Parliament elections.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	260725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>My officials and I meet regularly with representatives of local authorities and electoral administrators to discuss a wide range of electoral issues.</p><p>In line with their statutory duty, the Electoral Commission will be publishing a report into the administration of the polls later this year.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 10/06/2019 16:32:22 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1129625

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to respond to the Information Commissioner's report, Outsourcing oversight: the case for reforming access to information law which was published in January 2019.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	260030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government responded to the IC's report to Parliament on the 24 April 2019.</p><p>Copies of the response have been placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 10/06/2019 12:18:16 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1129676

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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, what assessment the Government has made of the UK’s compliance with Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union on the right to vote in the recent EU parliamentary elections.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	260094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>Legislation has been in place since 1994 which ensures that the UK is in compliance with<br>its European Union obligations regarding EU citizens’ right to vote in European<br>Parliamentary elections whilst resident in the UK</p><p>The Government took all the legal steps necessary to prepare for the European<br>Parliamentary elections and put in place all the legislative and funding elements to enable<br>Returning Officers to make their preparations required for the polls.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 11/06/2019 11:16:20 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1129677

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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, what guidance was issued to the Government by the Electoral Commission on the time required to ensure (a) EU citizens living in the UK and (b) UK citizens living in the EU would be able to vote in the EU parliamentary elections; and on what date his Department received that advice.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	260095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>Government officials worked closely with Returning Officers and the Electoral Commission and other agencies such as the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE) and the Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA) to support the smooth running of the polls on 23 May.</p><p> </p><p>Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) are under a statutory duty to ensure people who are eligible to vote in elections have the opportunity to do so. For the recent European Parliamentary elections that included making sure relevant citizens of the EU who are resident in the UK and registered to vote in local elections were made aware they needed to complete a voter registration and declaration form (commonly referred to as a UC1 or EC6 form) in order to enable them to vote.</p><p> </p><p>On 5 April, the Electoral Commission published guidance for local returning officers and EROs on the upcoming European parliamentary elections. This guidance reminded EROs to prepare and issue UC1 forms to EU citizens on the electoral register. It also encouraged EROs to agree plans and timings for postal vote despatch, including plans on how to prioritise the despatch of overseas votes. Overseas voters include UK eligible citizens living in the EU.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 11/06/2019 11:15:30 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1129678

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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, what assessment his Department made of the capacity of local authorities to ensure EU citizens living in the UK were able to vote in the UK at the recent EU parliamentary elections.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	260096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>Registration for elections is a matter for Electoral Registration Officers (EROs). The<br>Electoral Commission provides guidance and advice to EROs and is responsible for<br>monitoring their performance.</p><p>The Electoral Commission supported EROs in the discharge of this function. It issued guidance on<br>the 4th April which recommended that EROs should identify EU citizens who are on the local<br>government register and send them a declaration form and supporting information explaining how<br>they can declare their intent to vote in these elections in the UK should they wish to.</p><p>The Government worked with local authority elections staff<br>including EROs and Returning Officers and with the Electoral Commission and other<br>agencies such as the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE) and the<br>Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA) to support the smooth running of the polls.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 11/06/2019 11:14:42 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1128819

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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, whether he has had discussions with electoral registration officers on the UC1/EC6 process since the 25 April 2019 Urgent Question on Electoral Registration: EU Citizens.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	259362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>Government officials worked closely with Returning Officers and the Electoral Commission and<br>other agencies such as the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE) and the<br>Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA) to support the smooth running of the polls on 23<br>May</p><p>Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) are under a statutory duty to ensure people who are eligible<br>to vote in elections have the opportunity to do so. For the recent European Parliamentary elections<br>that included making sure relevant citizens of the EU who are resident in the UK and registered to<br>vote in local elections were made aware they needed to complete a voter registration and<br>declaration form (commonly referred to as a UC1 or EC6 form) in order to enable them to vote</p><p>The Electoral Commission supported EROs in the discharge of this function and encouraged them<br>to take additional steps to raise awareness of this requirement locally, through social media<br>channels and other means.</p><p>The Electoral Commission supported EROs in the discharge of this function. It issued guidance on<br>the 4th April which recommended that EROs should identify EU citizens who are on the local<br>government register and send them a declaration form and supporting information explaining how<br>they can declare their intent to vote in these elections in the UK should they wish to.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 10/06/2019 12:15:32 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West