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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

759619

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	Constituencies
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 potential merits of giving (a) electoral registration officers the responsibility for the subdivision of UK parliamentary constituencies into polling districts and (b) returning officers the responsibility for the designation of polling places within those districts.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>We consider that the current arrangements, whereby local authorities are responsible for<br>designating polling places and carrying out reviews, ensure that there is a clear and<br>consistent approach, and clear lines of accountability, in the designation of polling districts<br>and places. There are no plans to change these existing arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:46:47 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith