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522446

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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, with reference to the Answer of 13 April 2016 to Question 32900, what materials have been distributed to (a) students and (b) higher and further education institutions in respect of (i) voter registration and (ii) the EU referendum; what the cost to the public purse of that material was; and if he will place copies of all such material in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
tabling member printed	William Wragg
uin	39198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>Ministers wrote to universities, Further Education and sixth form colleges to encourage them to promote registration among their students ahead of the Referendum. The Government used social media to support initiatives such as Universities UK’s ‘student action week’ and shared the Electoral Commission’s publicly available materials at no additional cost to the public purse. No additional activity has taken place with these audiences since the start of the Purdah period.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 08/06/2016 16:05:22 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

522450

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 26 May 2016 to Question 37839, what the cost to the public purse has been of advertising of the Government's position on the EU referendum specifically on social media to date, excluding the cost of producing, distributing and publicising the Government's EU referendum leaflet and associated website.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	39123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government confirmed on 6<sup>th</sup> April 2016 that £2,894,064 had been set aside for the promotion of information relating to the EU Referendum, including the production of <a href="http://eureferndum.gov.uk/" target="_blank">eureferndum.gov.uk</a>. Costs relating to the Referendum will be accounted for in the usual way in Annual Report and Accounts.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 08/06/2016 16:04:15 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

521990

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: UK Membership of EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library copies of all letters, leaflets and other material from his Department circulated to (a) stakeholders and (b) members of the public on the EU Referendum; what the costs of the production and distribution of that material has been since 1 January 2016; and what he estimates the cost of any further production and distribution of such material will be between 6 May 2016 and 23 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
tabling member printed	William Wragg
uin	38811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>Copies of the Government's published documents on the Referendum are available in the Libraries of both Houses. It is not normal practice to publish letters to members of the public and stakeholders. Costs relating to the Referendum will be accounted for in the usual way in Annual Report and Accounts.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 38825 question first answered 08/06/2016 16:06:27 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

522018

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
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, how much the Government (a) has spent to date and (b) plans to spend before 23 June 2016 on promoting the Government's policy on the UK's membership of the EU.
tabling member constituency	Daventry
tabling member printed	Chris Heaton-Harris
uin	38929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government published on 6<sup>th</sup> April 2016 the total cost of producing, distributing and publicising the Government’s leaflet on the EU Referendum, including digital promotion and the production of eureferndum.gov.uk. Wider costs relating to the Referendum will be accounted for in the usual way in Annual Report and Accounts.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 08/06/2016 16:10:27 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris

522224

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: UK Membership of EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library copies of all letters, leaflets and other material from 10 Downing Street circulated to (a) stakeholders and (b) members of the public on the EU referendum; what the costs of the production and distribution of that material has been since 1 January 2016; and what he estimates the cost of any further production and distribution of such material will be between 6 May 2016 and 23 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
tabling member printed	William Wragg
uin	38825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>Copies of the Government's published documents on the Referendum are available in the Libraries of both Houses. It is not normal practice to publish letters to members of the public and stakeholders. Costs relating to the Referendum will be accounted for in the usual way in Annual Report and Accounts.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 38811 question first answered 08/06/2016 16:06:27 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

521523

registered interest
date	25/05/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Absent Voting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to allow postal voting ballot papers to be counted separately in order to more easily detect fraud.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	38491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>The law provides for the checking of the integrity of completed postal ballots prior to them being included in the count. Returning Officers are required to check 100% of postal vote identifiers (signatures and dates of birth) returned with completed postal votes against those supplied by the elector when they applied for a postal vote. Any that do not match will not be counted in order to prevent any attempt at electoral fraud. The law requires that postal ballot papers are mixed with ballot papers from a ballot box before they can be counted as a necessary step in order to help protect the secrecy of the ballot.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 08/06/2016 16:09:38 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

521087

registered interest
date	24/05/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Redbridge
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate the Government has made of the number of eligible people who are not on the electoral register in the London Borough of Redbridge.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	38303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>The last study of the completeness and accuracy of the electoral register was published by the Electoral Commission in July 2014, and found that Parliamentary registers were 85.9% complete and 86.4% accurate. This was based on the last registers published under the old household system of registration in February/March 2014. The next study of this kind will be published by the Commission this summer and will be based on the registers published in December 2015. The completeness and accuracy studies provide a nationally representative picture, and do not allow for analysis at a local authority level, such as the London Borough of Redbridge.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 06/06/2016 15:36:30 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

520645

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
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 the cost to the public purse has been of all advertising of the Government's position on the EU referendum on social media to date.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	37839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government published details of the cost of the producing, distributing and publicising its EU Referendum leaflet and associated website on 6th April 2016</p><p><br>The total cost was £9.3 million, with the breakdown of these costs as follows:<br>• production – £458,500<br>• print and delivery to over 27 million homes across the UK in 2 waves – £5,947,436<br>• digital promotion and website – £2,894,064</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 26/05/2016 17:01:16 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

519880

registered interest
date	20/05/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Ombudsman
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish a draft Public Service Ombudsman Bill.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	37716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2016 answer text <p>We remain committed to this reform and will publish draft legislation in due course.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 25/05/2016 17:37:40 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

518150

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2016 to Question 35770, what technical and practical barriers will prevent the Electoral Commission implementing a registration look-up tool before the EU referendum.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	36913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>As required by legislation, all applications to register to vote are assessed by Local Authority Electoral Registration Officers (EROs). There are around 360 EROs across the UK. EROs manage and maintain separate electoral registers for their areas on a variety of different software platforms. A national registration look-up tool would require access to all of these locally held and owned electoral registers, and, if it required the creation of a central national database, could require legislative changes and raise significant data protection concerns.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 12/05/2016 09:41:54 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith