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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

771361

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 recent comparable assessment the Government has made in the volume of guidance produced by the Electoral Commission for the registration of UK citizens overseas and the registration of homeless people; and whether his Department plans to review such guidance.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	107935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government has not made any assessment of the volume of Electoral Commission<br>guidance since this is a matter for the Electoral Commission.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:37:40 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

771362

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, how much funding was allocated by the Government to support (a) the registration of UK electors overseas and (b) residents without a fixed address in advance of the (i) 2017 General Election, (ii) EU referendum and (iii) 2015 General Election.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	107936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>Most funding for electoral registration is the responsibility of local authorities. However, in<br>recent years (including all the years in question) the Cabinet Office has made available<br>extra funding to cover the additional costs of Individual Electoral Registration. Such<br>funding will have assisted with the cost of any targeted canvassing of groups such as<br>those without a fixed address or overseas electors. However it is not possible to estimate<br>the specific costs of such activity.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/10/2017 11:27:58 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

771369

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	Local Government: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which local authorities have expressed interest to his Department in conducting a voter ID pilot in polling stations for the May 2018 local elections.
tabling member constituency	Bolton West
tabling member printed	Chris Green
uin	108068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The May 2018 voter ID pilot schemes are part of a programme of reform that will enhance<br>public confidence in our elections and strengthen electoral integrity. The opportunity to<br>pilot voter ID in May 2018 was offered to all local authorities in Great Britain and on 16<br>September we announced that Woking, Gosport, Bromley and Watford have committed to<br>do so. In addition, Tower Hamlets will be piloting measures to improve the integrity of the<br>postal vote process.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:50:49 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green

771370

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	Local Government: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government has taken to implement the recommendations of Sir Eric Pickles' review of electoral fraud entitled Securing the ballot, not including the voter ID pilots planned for the May 2018 local elections.
tabling member constituency	Bolton West
tabling member printed	Chris Green
uin	108084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s view is that electoral fraud is unacceptable on any level. Sir Eric Pickles’ review made a number of recommendations for strengthening the integrity of the electoral process. In addition to the voter ID pilots taking place in the May 2018 elections, Tower Hamlets will also pilot changes to postal voting. The Government is also seeking to end the practice of postal vote harvesting through measures that will prohibit party campaigners from handling postal votes, and apply a limit to the number of postal ballots that any one individual can hand in at a polling station. Additionally, the Electoral Commission has addressed 7 recommendations through guidance in response to the Pickles Review.</p><p>The Government is considering the way forward on the other recommendations made by Sir Eric Pickles, and will continue to consider how to improve the integrity of electoral processes more generally.</p><p><strong><strong><strong></strong><br></strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/10/2017 11:20:18 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green