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date	06/01/2022
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Elections: Proof of Identity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for City of Chester, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what recent assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the impact of introducing voter ID on turnout among Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities in (a) Newport West, (b) Wales and (c) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	99061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2022 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission’s independent evaluation of the Government’s pilots, held in 2018 and 2019, found no evidence that turnout was significantly affected by the trialled introduction of an ID requirement at polling stations.</p><p>However, the evaluations noted that the pilots were not representative of the UK population and it was therefore not possible to draw definitive conclusions, particularly about the likely impact at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.</p><p>The Commission will have significant responsibilities to raise public awareness about the new ID requirement. This will have a predominant focus on those demographics known to be less likely to have the necessary identification, including those from lower socio-economic groups, those with disabilities and the unemployed.</p> answering member constituency City of Chester answering member printed Christian Matheson question first answered 10/01/2022 16:53:44 answering member 4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

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date	11/05/2021
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Elections: Proof of Identity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for City of Chester, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many free local elector IDs were issued by Woking Council as part of the 2019 Voter ID trials.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2021 answer text <p>Woking Borough Council issued 24 free local elector cards in 2019, as part of its participation in the UK Government's voter ID pilot. It issued 63 cards in a similar trial held in 2018.</p><p>This information was collated as part of the Commission's independant evaluations of the pilot schemes conducted in 2018 and 2019.</p> answering member constituency City of Chester answering member printed Christian Matheson question first answered 17/05/2021 08:07:05 answering member 4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith