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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

760626

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	Candidates: Disclosure of Information
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 extend the option for candidates to restrict publication of their home address to all polls.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	105240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the answer given on 18th October 2017 to PQ7722.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 23/10/2017 16:06:02 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

760802

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	Elections: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will remove the requirement for election agents' home addresses to be published.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	105312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government recognises the concerns surrounding the inclusion of home addresses on electoral documents which are published and we will consider this whilst looking at issues in relation to publication of the home addresses of candidates.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 23/10/2017 16:09:28 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

760803

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	Candidates: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will review the process of recording candidates' expenses including the consideration of the return to, and subsequent reporting of, expenses to returning officers and the possible provision of online reporting and inspection mechanisms.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	105313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government is clear that spending by candidates at elections should continue to be transparent. We will discuss with returning officers and the Electoral Commission how processes relating to the return and publication of spending returns could be improved. The development of online reporting and inspection is likely incur substantial cost as an online platform would need to be developed, established and maintained.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 23/10/2017 16:07:50 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

760112

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	Oesophageal Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer aged between (a) 20 to 40, (b) 40 to 60 and (c) over 60 in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	10316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I<br>have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:39:27 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ10316.pdf title UKSA response
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

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

759605

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 Registration Officers: Finance
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 adequacy of funding for electoral registration officers.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	10117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The majority of electoral registration activity is funded by local authorities across England,<br>Scotland and Wales. Since 2014 the Cabinet Office has provided funding to LAs to cover<br>the additional costs generated by the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration,<br>including a second bidding round after the canvass if initial funding is insufficient to cover<br>costs incurred over the year.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:32:18 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

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