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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	Returning Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to codify the roles and responsibilities of tellers at polling stations.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>Guidance on the roles and responsibilities of tellers is already produced by the Electoral<br>Commission. Tellers must also act in accordance with any further guidance provided by<br>the relevant Returning Officer or their staff. There are currently no plans to put such<br>guidance on a statutory footing.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:51:08 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

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registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Returning Officers
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 a minimum of two months' notice is given to a returning officer when requesting copies of full election accounts and receipts.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	7730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Returning officers (ROs) have six months from the date of a poll to provide their fully completed claim form and supporting evidence to the Elections Claim Unit (ECU) at the Cabinet Office. This provides time for ROs to complete their claim form and gather all the evidence necessary to account for the expenses claimed.</p><p> </p><p>The evidence that needs to be submitted with the expenses claim is determined by the scrutiny category assigned to each voting area. ROs are advised that full election accounts and all evidence should be kept readily available. ROs are expected by the National Audit Office to have this information readily available to them after the claim has been submitted.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 12/09/2017 09:10:45 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith