To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of public appointments
were women from (a) 1 January to 12 July 2016 and (b) 13 July 2016 to date.
<p>Statistics on public appointments are published annually by the Commissioner for
Public Appointments.</p><p>Data published in July 2016 shows that for the financial
year 2015/16 a 48.2% of new public appointments were made to women, higher than at
any point in the last decade. Data for the financial year 2016/17 will be published
by the Commissioner next summer.</p>
<p><a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify has cost £54.4m to develop
to date. <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify has saved £111.44m.</p><p>
</p>
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent steps he has taken to tackle
voter fraud; what plans his Department has to tackle such fraud in the future; and
if he will make a statement.
<p>The Government is committed to tackling fraud and making our electoral process
more secure. We have introduced and developed Individual Electoral Registration over
the past two years to tighten up the registration process and recently welcomed Sir
Eric Pickles’ report on his review into electoral fraud to which we are giving careful
attention as an important step in looking at improvements to the voting process. The
Government will publish its report in due course.</p>
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December 2016
to Question 56146, how many people registering their identity have used the service
to (a) report a medical condition that affects their driving, (b) renew a short-term
medical driving licence, (c) check their income tax for the current year, (d) get
a state pension statement, (e) sign into their personal tax account, (f) view or share
driving licence information, (g) apply for universal credit, (h) claim for redundancy
and monies owed, (i) file a self assessment tax return, (j) update rural payment details,
(k) assist friends or family with their tax and (l) check or update company car tax
details.
<p>The number of new verified identity accounts used to register and access the following
government services since <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify
went into public beta on the 14th October <del class="ministerial">2016,</del> <ins
class="ministerial">2014,</ins> is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Government
service</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>New verified accounts used to register and
access a service (LOA2)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>New basic accounts used to
register and access a service (LOA1)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Claim for redundancy
and monies owed</p></td><td><p>42,875</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Update rural payment
details</p></td><td><p>13,754</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>View or share driving licence
information</p></td><td><p>24,482</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apply for universal credit</p></td><td><p>29,307</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Check
or update company car tax details</p></td><td><p>49,088</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Assist
friends or family with their tax</p></td><td><p>1,929</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sign
into their personal tax account</p></td><td><p>43,539</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>File
a self assessment tax return</p></td><td><p>234,904</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Check
their income tax for the current year</p></td><td><p>24,961</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Get
a state pension statement</p></td><td><p>62,587</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Report a medical
condition that affects their driving</p></td><td><p>979</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Renew
a short-term medical driving licence</p></td><td><p>545</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p>
