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date	12/07/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
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 effectiveness of electoral registration arrangements for UK nationals abroad in (a) general and (b) Germany in advance of the EU referendum.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	42477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>Online registration has made the application process for overseas electors easier than ever before. Between the start of the EU referendum campaign on 18 April and the extended registration deadline on 9 June over 151,000 overseas electors submitted an application to register to vote.</p><p>The Cabinet Office does not hold data on overseas elector applications by country.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/07/2016 13:10:29 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

535170

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Voting Rights: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government plans to allow all British citizens who live abroad but pay income tax in the UK to vote in UK elections regardless of the length of time they have been resident abroad.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	42319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>As set out in our manifesto, the Government will bring forward legislation to remove the outdated 15 year time limit on overseas voting rights.</p><p>The Government’s proposals will make no change to the extent to which taxation is the basis for enfranchisement in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/07/2016 13:09:26 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson