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760625

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Referendums
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 proposals to provide for the appointment of sub-agents at any future national referendum.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	105239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>Referendums held under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000<br>(PPERA) have not previously allowed for sub-agents to be appointed by referendum<br>agents. We will consider this matter further with the Electoral Commission and the<br>Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA).</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/10/2017 10:49:10 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

760801

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Absent Voting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will assess the merits of introducing a process to cancel a postal ballot paper issued to an elector who is subsequently deleted from the electoral register during an election period.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	105247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>Electoral law is clear that a person must be included in the register of electors for a<br>poll in order to be entitled to vote at that poll. The Government recognises that it is<br>possible for postal ballot papers to be issued to a postal voter who may subsequently<br>be removed from the register to be used at the poll. We will look to review the current<br>provisions on the cancellation of postal ballot papers to see whether improvements<br>can be made to the law in this area.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/10/2017 11:00:01 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

760805

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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, if he will assess the merits of clarifying the arrangements around deferring publication of the electoral register where an election occurs during the defined canvass period.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	105248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government recognises that greater clarity could be provided on deferring<br>publication of the electoral register under these circumstances. We will keep the<br>matter under review and address it when the opportunity arises.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/10/2017 10:51:09 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

760037

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	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

760201

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

759606

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
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 recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the UK voter registration system.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	10165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The most recent formal assessment of register quality, based on the 1 December 2015 registers<br>and published in July 2016, found that individual electoral registration boosted the accuracy of the<br>register by 4 per cent</p><p>Alongside individual registration, the successful introduction of online registration has transformed<br>the way citizens can register. It now takes just a few minutes to apply to register and nearly 30<br>million citizens have taken the opportunity to do so in the last three years. In large part thanks to<br>online registration, the parliamentary register used for the 2017 general election was the largest<br>ever at nearly 47 million</p><p>2.9 million applications were submitted between the calling of the election and the registration<br>deadline date, with 622,000 applications coming on deadline day itself</p><p>The government has continued to modernise the registration process and to make it more<br>accessible, as underscored, for example by recent policy commitments on making it easier for<br>survivors of domestic abuse to register anonymously.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:54:41 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

759608

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Returning Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to codify the roles and responsibilities of tellers at polling stations.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>Guidance on the roles and responsibilities of tellers is already produced by the Electoral<br>Commission. Tellers must also act in accordance with any further guidance provided by<br>the relevant Returning Officer or their staff. There are currently no plans to put such<br>guidance on a statutory footing.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:51:08 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

759609

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
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 the timetable is to bring forward proposals on the registration of people in (i) universities, (ii) colleges, (iii) residential care homes and (iv) houses in multiple occupation.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government intends to publish a democratic engagement strategy addressing<br>registration issues in late 2017.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:47:57 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

759610

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the timetable is to bring forward proposals to tackle duplicate voter registrations.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office is committed to finding an appropriate approach to reducing the burden of duplicate applications while ensuring that unnecessary barriers to registration are avoided. The fact that millions of people have taken the step of applying to register online shows it was right to introduce the website as part of Individual Electoral Registration.</p><p>We have already taken steps to limit unnecessary duplicate applications to register. For example during the recent general election we added a new page to the website to guide people away from making applications when they did not need to.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:45:55 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

759612

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the timetable is to bring forward proposals to improve data-sharing in the voter registration process.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>Electoral Returning Officers (EROs) already have wide powers to access data to improve<br>the quality of the register. The Cabinet Office is working with administrators and their<br>representatives and the Electoral Commission to investigate additional potential use of<br>data to aid EROs in their registration duties.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:39:16 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith