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771360

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
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 make it his policy to establish an online service to enable people to check if they are registered to vote.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	107941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>Determining an individual’s registration status is the responsibility of Electoral Registration<br>Officers and only EROs hold up-to- date information allowing a citizen to check if they are<br>registered. This means that citizens can contact their local electoral administration office to<br>make enquiries about registration status.</p><p>Making information about registration status available on-line on a national basis would be<br>a significant undertaking and we have no current plans to introduce such a system. It may<br>be more appropriate for EROs to work with their software suppliers to make registers<br>available for checking on-line.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/10/2017 11:24:07 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

771363

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
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 steps the Government is taking to ensure consistency in Unique Property Reference Numbers for the database used by councils and the gov.uk/register-to-vote website.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	107937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>Citizens applying to register to vote using the Government website must enter their<br>address. After verification, citizen applications are passed to Electoral Registration<br>Officers. The record passed to each ERO includes the Unique Property Reference<br>Number (UPRN) drawn from an Ordnance Survey database. It is up to each ERO how to<br>make use of this UPRN.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/10/2017 11:26:05 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

771364

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what safeguards are in place to ensure that people registered to vote outside of the UK do not register in more than one parliamentary constituency.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	107938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>British citizens outside the UK can only register as an overseas elector in the constituency in which they were registered to vote, provided that entry was in force within 15 years of them making an overseas elector&amp;#39;s declaration. Section 2(4) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 prevents a person from specifying more than one address on the declaration; and also prevents a person from having more than one declaration in force at any one time.</p><p>Registration Officers have the power to request information required to prove this. Providing false information to a registration officer is an offence and for England and Wales can result in up to 51 weeks imprisonment or an unlimited fine, and for Scotland up to 6 months imprisonment or a maximum fine of £5,000.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/10/2017 10:54:21 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

771365

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Personation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many cases of impersonation took place in each parliamentary constituency and local authority in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	107940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>This Government is committed to creating a clear and secure democracy that works for<br>everyone and, as part of this, wants to ensure that fraud is stamped out in elections. Any<br>instance of electoral fraud is one instance too many.</p><p>The Electoral Commission publishes annual analysis of electoral fraud on their website:</p><p>http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information- by-subject/electoral- fraud/data-<br>and-analysis?<br>Further breakdown and analysis of information on electoral fraud is available in the<br>reports.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:42:01 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

771366

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that homeless people are (a) registered to vote and (b) participate in elections; and what assessment he has made of the effect on registration levels of the requirement for electors without a fixed address to print a local connection form to register to vote.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	107939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>As part of my “Every Voice Matters” tour, I visited every nation and region of the United Kingdom to hear about the barriers that prevent some groups – including homeless people – from participating in the democratic system. For example, when I went to Cambridge, I met with homelessness organisations and their clients to hear how the electoral registration system could better respond to their needs. We will continue to work with homelessness charities, such as Shelter and Crisis, to overcome these barriers and help those with no fixed address to register to vote. These organisations and others already work to make sure that the paperwork required to register without a fixed address can be readily accessed.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 23/10/2017 16:05:15 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

771367

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Employment: Bolton West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of the working population of Bolton West constituency is employed in the (a) public and (b) private sector.
tabling member constituency	Bolton West
tabling member printed	Chris Green
uin	108071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 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 20/10/2017 14:43:02 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ108071 v.02.pdf title UKSA response
tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green

767394

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
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: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what was the cost to the public purse of holding the general election 2017.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	106643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office notified Parliament of the forecast cost<br>of the UK general election of £140,850,000 in a Written Ministerial Statement on 13<br>September 2017 (Hansard Volume 628, reference HCWS130).</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/10/2017 11:07:37 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

765174

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	New Businesses: Bolton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information the Government holds on the number of new businesses that were established in Bolton in the most recent year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Sir David Crausby
uin	105762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 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 19/10/2017 11:15:36 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ 105762 v.03 (1).pdf title UKSA response
tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

765472

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	List of Ministerial Responsibilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to update his Office's publication entitled List of Ministerial Responsibilities.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	106078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>The updated List of Ministerial Responsibilities is now available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-ministers- and-responsibilities on GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 23/10/2017 16:06:48 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

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