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date	13/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to ensure that all costs properly incurred in (a) the administration of elections, including electoral registration costs directly attributable to the election, are reimbursed to returning officers and their employing local authorities and (b) delivering electoral registration are automatically provided to local authorities without the need to revert to the justification-led bidding process.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The process for reimbursing properly incurred costs for electoral events is overseen by the<br>Election Claims Unit. Once claims have been received and properly scrutinised, expenses<br>necessarily incurred for the effective and efficient delivery of the poll will be reimbursed</p><p>The Election Claims Unit aims to settle claims within 12 months of them being received.</p><p>The majority of electoral registration activity is funded by local authorities across England,<br>Scotland and Wales. The law does not allow for claims for electoral events to include costs<br>of electoral registration.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:54:00 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

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registered interest
date	13/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	General Election 2017
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings of the report, Turned Out 2017, published by the RNIB on problems experienced by blind and partially sighted voters at the 2017 General Election; and if he will implement that report's recommendations before local authority elections take place in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	105016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>I welcome the report by the RNIB on the experiences of blind and partially sighted people<br>at the 2017 General Election. The Government will consider these recommendations as<br>part of our current Call for Evidence on the experience of disabled people in registering to<br>vote and voting and will look at the evidence as a whole in planning how to take forward<br>any changes.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:52:54 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day