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506261

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans his Department has to encourage voter registration amongst students before the EU referendum.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	32900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government has made it easier and more flexible for students to register to vote than ever before with the introduction of online registration. Students are now able to register at both term time and home addresses in just three minutes. Since June 2014, 3.8 million people aged 16-24 have applied to register to vote with 2.8 million of these applications made online. The Government is also working with Higher Education and Further Education bodies including the Association of Colleges and Universities UK to explore voter registration among students further.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 13/04/2016 14:15:46 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

506266

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how the Government intends to encourage electoral registration officers to prepare and execute strategies to maximise the proportion of (a) 16 and 17 year olds, (b) FE and HE students and (c) people aged 25 years and under registering to vote.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	32874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>Electoral Registration Officers have a statutory duty to maintain the completeness and accuracy of their registers and are held accountable for meeting performance standards by the Electoral Commission. This includes implementing public engagement strategies to target under registered groups which includes young people. The Government has made available a range of free online learning resources on voter registration. These have been promoted to EROs using channels such as newsletters and Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA) meetings.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 13/04/2016 14:40:56 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

506271

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Young People
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 encourage the combination of electoral registration of 16 and 17 year olds with related (a) programmes of study and (b) extra-curricular activities in all English educational establishments.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	33017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government helps promote democratic participation in schools through the Citizenship curriculum. This part of the national curriculum is statutory at Key Stage 3 &amp; 4 and helps to prepare pupils to play a full and active part in society. Pupils learn about democracy, government and how laws are made and upheld. The Government has also developed a number of learning resources, including Rock Enrol! This includes activities that discuss the importance of democratic engagement and can be used with young people in formal and informal educational environments.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 13/04/2016 14:44:59 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

480619

registered interest
date	18/03/2016
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 assessment he has made of the effectiveness of individual voter registration.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	David Mackintosh
uin	31752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2016 answer text <p>The transition to IER is now complete and has been a great success. Over 14 million applications have been made to register since the introduction of IER, almost three quarters of them online. Ghost entries have been removed, which means the electoral registers are more accurate and less vulnerable to fraud than before. The Electoral Commission is expected to publish its assessment of the completeness and accuracy of the first full electoral registers under IER, published in December 2015, this summer.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 01/04/2016 11:26:28 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4431 label Biography information for David Mackintosh

479500

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Educational Institutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to increase the level of voter registration in schools, colleges and universities.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	David Mackintosh
uin	31600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government has made it easier and quicker to register to vote than ever before through online registration. Since June 2014, 3.6 million people aged 16-24 have applied to register to vote, with 2.7 million of these applications made online. The Government has also worked with various youth organisations such as NUS and Sixth Form Colleges Association, to encourage voter registration among students.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 11/04/2016 10:01:28 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4431 label Biography information for David Mackintosh

479508

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Peers: Per Capita Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has made an assessment of the average cost of a working peer which includes expenses, salary, necessary equipment and office space.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	31628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2016 answer text <p>The department has made no such assessment. The costs to which the hon. member refers are a matter for the House of Lords.</p><p>Details of the House of Lords business plans, annual reports and accounts, and financial support for members can be found on the <a href="http://parliament.uk/" target="_blank">parliament.uk</a> website.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 22/03/2016 13:47:36 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

479052

registered interest
date	16/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Credit Reference Agencies
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 effect on electoral registration rates of introduction of a requirement to pass on electoral roll data to credit reference firms.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	31470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>Copies of the electoral register have been made available for sale in one form or another since at least 1832. Credit reference agencies purchase the electoral register because it provides proof to lenders that applicants for credit do in fact live at the address given and that they are not attempting to obtain credit fraudulently using a false name and address. Given the importance of credit in a modern economy, the then Government concluded in 2002 that this was in the public interest. The credit reference agencies are precluded by law from doing anything else with the electoral data, unless the data is also included in the edited register, from which individuals can opt out.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 24/03/2016 10:21:12 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

475582

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Costs
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 25 January 2016 to Question 23088, on electoral register: costs, what the £23 million not shared between all EROs in Great Britain was spent on.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	31265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The remaining £23 million was for developing and maintaining the online registration service, electoral management software costs, payments to civil society organisations to help boost voter registration levels and staffing and related costs.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 11/04/2016 09:58:45 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

475584

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
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 he has taken to investigate the reasons for changes in the level of electoral registration in each local authority.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	31217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission is expected to publish its assessment of the completeness and accuracy of the first full electoral registers under IER this summer. We expect this will provide a breakdown for England, Scotland and Wales but not for each local authority.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 21/03/2016 15:36:29 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

475585

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
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 information his Department has collected from electoral registration officers on the number of names removed from electoral registers in each local authority for each permissible reason in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	31239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission recently published its report on the state of the December 2015 electoral registers. It is available here: <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/197516/IER-Assessment-December-2015-registers.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/197516/IER-Assessment-December-2015-registers.pdf</a></p><p>The report uses the best data available and outlines the changes to the register, including deletions, between December 2014 and December 2015 and the reasons for those changes. The report also explains that the data collection was a joint exercise between the Electoral Commission, the Cabinet Office, Electoral Registration Officers and electoral management software suppliers.</p><p>Previous reports for additional years, when the Cabinet Office was not involved in data collection, can be accessed here: <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/performance-standards/performance-in-running-electoral-registration" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/performance-standards/performance-in-running-electoral-registration</a>.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 21/03/2016 15:36:15 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero