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797676

registered interest
date	06/12/2017
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 Secretary of State for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government plans to undertake a comprehensive investigation of intimidation of candidates and canvassers during the 2017 General Election.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	116639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p><strong>At the request of the Prime Minister, the Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL) is currently carrying out a review of the intimidation of Parliamentary candidates, including those who stood at the 2017 General Election. The Committee will be publishing its report ‘Intimidation in Public Life: A Review by the Committee on Standards in Public Life’ on Wednesday 13 December. The Government will consider the report and its recommendations carefully.</strong></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 07/12/2017 10:30:30 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

800717

registered interest
date	04/12/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	House of Lords Composition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what assessment he has made of the changes to the level of funding from the public purse of the recommendations of report of the Lord Speaker’s Committee on the size of the House of Lords, published on 31 October 2017.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	117338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>At this point the Government has not made an assessment of the financial implications of the recommendations in the Lord Speaker's committee report. Those proposals are due to be discussed for the first time by the House of Lords on 19 December. The Government will listen closely to what is said in that debate on the range of recommendations before considering its own position on those recommendations.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 07/12/2017 10:28:50 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

798670

registered interest
date	01/12/2017
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 estimate he has made of the number of eligible people not on the electoral register in (a) England and (b) Bolton West constituency since 2010?
tabling member constituency	Bolton West
tabling member printed	Chris Green
uin	117064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>Information regarding the total number of unregistered people of voting age is not held by the Government. Only totals for the number of registered electors are held, and these can be accessed through the Office For National Statistics website. It should be noted, however, that registration levels have increased at every General Election since 2005, and the register used for the 2017 General Election was the largest in our history, standing at 46.9 million entries. This is undoubtedly due, in large part, to the introduction of the Government’s Register to Vote website, which has delivered great benefits to electors, making registering to vote simpler and more accessible than ever before. It is the Government’s intention to build on this success by publishing a Democratic Engagement Plan in December, which will have the ambition of making the General Election in 2022 the most inclusive to date.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 06/12/2017 15:17:56 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green

797776

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
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, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2017 to Question 2214, which local authorities will participate in the proof of identity pilot for the May 2018 local elections.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	116684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>The opportunity to pilot voter ID in May 2018 was offered to all local authorities in Great Britain and we are pleased that Woking, Gosport, Bromley, Swindon and Watford have committed to do so. In addition, Tower Hamlets will be piloting measures to improve the integrity of the postal and proxy vote processes respectively.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 06/12/2017 16:59:32 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

797777

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Cheshire East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the factors affecting electoral registration and voter engagement in the Cheshire East Unitary Authority.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	116685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>We have not made a specific assessment of factors affecting registration levels in Cheshire East.</p><p> </p><p>More generally, we are committed to working with EROs and others to build on the successful introduction of online registration to ensure that everyone eligible to take part in our democracy can do so. Before Christmas, we will publish our democratic engagement plan, setting out evidence on levels of electoral registration across the country and our intended steps for maximising registration.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 06/12/2017 15:12:54 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

798021

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
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 plans he has to reduce the proportion of eligible voters who are not on the electoral register.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	116928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to building on the successful introduction of online registration - now used by more than 30 million citizens - to ensure that everyone eligible to take part in our democracy can do so. Before Christmas, we will publish our democratic engagement plan, setting out evidence on levels of electoral registration across the country and our intended steps for maximising registration.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 07/12/2017 10:12:05 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

798022

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
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 evidence base his Department uses to assess what gaps exist in the electoral register.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	116929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>There is a wide-ranging evidence base on electoral registration. This includes the completeness and accuracy studies conducted by the Electoral Commission as well as academic and other research. I have also collected a large amount of evidence from the meetings and roundtable discussions I have held over recent months as part of my Every Voice Matters tour. Our forthcoming democratic engagement plan, to be published later in December 2017, will set out some of the evidence we have gathered as well as our plans for future action.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 07/12/2017 10:10:49 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

798023

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
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 estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of implementing an automatic voter registration system.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	116930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not support a policy of automatic voter registration and has made no assessment of the costs of implementation of any such system.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 07/12/2017 10:12:17 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

797376

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
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, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2017 to Question 10794 on the electoral register, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of establishing an online service to enable people to check if they are registered to vote; and if he will publish any cost-benefit analysis his Department has undertaken on that policy.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	116339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>Based on the findings from recent exploratory work, we estimate that the creation of such a service would cost between £10m and £40m, and then between £7m and £20m per year to keep running. The current average annual cost of processing duplicate applications is estimated to be between £400,000 and £1.2m. There are also no obvious solutions to technical barriers to implementing such a tool. In particular, it is not technically possible, currently, to have real time identity verification without a setup delay. Both factors point towards needing to find an alternative solution to duplicate applications to register to vote, most likely implemented at a local level. We will continue to work with the electoral community in addressing this issue.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 06/12/2017 15:20:10 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

795906

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Cabinet Office of 22 November 2017, Official Report, c1033, if that Minister will meet with Cambridge Assessment and the hon. Member for Cambridge to discuss the updating of freedom of information arrangements aside from the review of the code of practice.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	116229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>We continue to keep the scope of the FOI Act under review, and I am grateful to you for bringing this situation to my attention. I would be very happy to meet with you and Cambridge Assessment on this matter.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 06/12/2017 15:21:31 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner