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date	11/06/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people successfully registered to vote in the May 2015 General Election in the month preceding the deadline for registration.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>On 18 June the Electoral Commission published their analysis of the state of the electoral registers used for the General Election. The report shows that the number of entries on the local government and Parliamentary registers had increased by 1% compared with the last registers published before the transition to Individual Electoral Registration. The full report can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/190464/IER-June-report.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/190464/IER-June-report.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 25/06/2015 17:27:08 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley attachment 1 file name IER-June-report.pdf title IER Report
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

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date	11/06/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they plan to take to combat the decline in students registering to vote.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government has made it easier and more convenient than ever for students to register to vote. Students can now register online in as little as three minutes and many chose to do so before the General Election.</p><p> </p><p>In addition the Government has released £530,000 directly to organisations that work to encourage student electoral registration, including £380,000 to the National Union of Students, and continues to foster closer working relationships between universities and authorities through the Student Forum, established and supported by the Cabinet Office.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 25/06/2015 17:01:02 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark