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date	20/07/2017
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	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how much the Commission has spent on direct advertising to increase registration of (a) young people aged 18 to 25 and (b) members of the expatriate community.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	6348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission undertakes voter registration and public awareness campaigns in the lead up to each major poll, including advertising targeted directly at recognised under-registered groups such as people aged 18 to 25 and UK citizens living overseas.</p><p> </p><p>The tables below gives totals for advertising placed explicitly and exclusively to target these two audiences in the two campaigns run in the lead up to polls in May and June 2017. For the May elections, the figures include advertising targeted at 16-17 year olds given the lower voting age for these polls in Scotland.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Poll</p></td><td><p>16/18 to 25 year olds</p></td><td><p>UK citizens living overseas</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>May 2017 local elections</strong></p></td><td><p>£37,500</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>UK general election</strong></p></td><td><p>£8,100</p></td><td><p>£14,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>People within these categories are also likely to see advertising which reaches them as part of different target groups (such as recent home movers), wider age groups (such as 18-35 year olds) or indeed advertising targeted at the general population. It is not possible to disaggregate these figures and include them here.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 05/09/2017 09:41:55 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

754875

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
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	Electoral Register: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what data the Commission holds on how many 18 to 25-year olds live in each parliamentary constituency; and how many and what proportion of those people in each such constituency are registered to vote.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	6349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission does not hold data on the number of 18 to 25-year olds living or registered to vote in UK Parliamentary constituencies.</p><p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission’s most recent report on the accuracy and completeness of the electoral registers in Great Britain, which related to the 1 December 2015 registers, estimated that 71% of 20 to 24-year olds and 51% of 18 to 19-year olds were registered to vote at a current address.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 05/09/2017 09:45:27 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

754876

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
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	Ballot Papers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many and what proportion of postal ballot papers were declared null and void in each of the last five general elections.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	6350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission collected data from Returning Officers for all UK constituencies following the UK Parliamentary general elections in 2001, 2005, 2010 and 2015. The numbers of postal votes rejected by Returning Officers were as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postal ballots issued</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postal ballots returned</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postal ballots rejected</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postal ballots rejected (% of those returned)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001</p></td><td><p>1,758,055</p></td><td><p>1,402,073</p></td><td><p>31,189</p></td><td><p>2.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>5,362,501</p></td><td><p>4,110,039</p></td><td><p>146,247</p></td><td><p>3.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>6,996,006</p></td><td><p>5,818,853</p></td><td><p>221,988</p></td><td><p>3.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>7,592,735</p></td><td><p>6,516,228</p></td><td><p>214,155</p></td><td><p>3.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Commission is collecting data from Returning Officers following the UK Parliamentary general election in June 2017. This data will be published in September 2017.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 05/09/2017 09:47:43 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane