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917355

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
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, whether his Department plans to change the level of funding allocated to local authorities to cover the additional costs of individual electoral registration for future financial years.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	150173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to funding the additional costs of IER until 2020 and has met this commitment in full since IER was introduced in 2014.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 08/06/2018 14:00:07 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

917362

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	European Parliament: Elections
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 18 May 2018 to Question 143730, on European Parliament: Elections, whether not making preparations to hold European Parliamentary elections in 2019 will affect funding for returning officers; and what steps the Elections Claims Unit is taking to resolve potential issues relating to election claims.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	150176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>Returning officers are funded from the Consolidated Fund for the running of elections at UK wide level. In the absence of a European Parliamentary poll, in the UK, in May 2019 funding will not be required. Therefore, there will be no elections claims in relation to that poll.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 08/06/2018 15:01:42 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

914840

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Living Wage: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people between 16 and 24 years old are paid less than the living wage, as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	148876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 148877 question first answered 08/06/2018 14:58:28 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ 148877 PQ148876 ONS letter.pdf title UKSA response
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

914841

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Living Wage: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people between 16 and 24 years old in full-time employment are paid less than the living wage, as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	148877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 148876 question first answered 08/06/2018 14:58:28 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ 148877 PQ148876 ONS letter.pdf title UKSA response
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

914852

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
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 steps his Department is taking to work with university, college and further education providers to integrate electoral registration into academic enrolment prior to the commencement of the 2018-19 academic year.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	148884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government issued Ministerial Guidance to the Office for Students (OfS) in February 2018, relating to an electoral registration condition for Higher Education providers registering with the OfS. The OfS is currently engaging with stakeholders for the purposes of producing its own guidance to advise Higher Education providers on the steps they might take to demonstrate that they are complying with this condition of registration.</p><p> </p><p>We expect this action to help facilitate student registration, improving both the completeness and accuracy of electoral registers. We intend to evaluate the effect of these arrangements before considering any extension into the schools and Further Education sectors.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 08/06/2018 14:30:48 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

914853

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government took to encourage people unable to vote in person to apply for a postal vote for the 2018 local government elections.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	148885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s Register to Vote website allows electors to request the necessary form(s) to apply to vote by post or proxy. The gov.uk website also provides forms for electors to download, complete and send to their Local Registration Office. In addition, the Electoral Commission and local authorities provide information and guidance for those electors who cannot vote in person and wish to vote by post or proxy.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 08/06/2018 14:39:30 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

914967

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Polling Stations: Disability
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 polling stations are accessible for people with disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	148897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for designating polling places and must ensure that these places are accessible to the local community, give reasonable facilities for voting and are accessible for voters with a disability.</p><p> </p><p>Last year the Government issued a Call for Evidence for information on how voting can be improved for people with disabilities. The responses to that review are being analysed and will help identify any issues and inform any proposals for change to ensure accessibility.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 08/06/2018 14:35:47 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

914968

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Polling Stations: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has made an assessment of (a) the adequacy of the tactile voting device used in polling stations for blind and visually impaired voters and (b) the potential merits of a replacement of that device to increase accessibility.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	148898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>The tactile voting device was introduced to enable blind and visually impaired voters to mark their vote independently when previously they had to rely on someone else to mark their ballot for them.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s expert Accessibly of Elections Working Group reviews the experiences of disabled people in voting at elections, including the use of the tactile voting device by blind and visually impaired voters at polling stations. Through the work of the Group, which includes the Royal National Institute of Blind People, the Government assess how the voting experience of blind and visually impaired people can be enhanced.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the Government’s Call for Evidence on Accessibility of elections, we will consider the information provided to assess how the voting experience of blind and visually impaired voters can be further improved.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 08/06/2018 14:32:19 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

914977

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Voting Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment the Government has made of the potential effect on trends in the level of voting in elections of opening polling stations at weekends.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	148901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>Previous pilots of weekend voting showed no significant variation in turnout and the consultation undertaken by the Labour Government in 2009 showed that a majority of respondents favoured retaining polling on a weekday and that moving to weekend voting could double or even triple costs.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 08/06/2018 15:00:26 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

915053

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Politics and Government: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many youth democracy ambassadors have been recruited for the Suffrage Centenary Programme; and how many youth democracy ambassadors are in receipt of free school meals.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	148918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>The Democracy Ambassadors scheme is currently under development with our delivery partner, Young Citizens. The scheme will be launched in full later this year. We expect Ambassadors to be drawn from a variety of backgrounds.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 08/06/2018 14:37:38 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith