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date	10/06/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Election Offences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 3 July 2017 (HL3), 15 September 2017 (HL1448), and 13 October 2017 (HL1671), and by Lord Duncan of Springbank on 21 December 2017 (HL3975), 16 March 2018 (HL6045), 20 November 2018 (HL11393 and HL11394), and 17 May (HL15556), what plans they have to introduce legislation to prevent any abuse of the electoral system in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
uin	HL16199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>On 5th May the Minister for the Constitution announced a range of new measures to safeguard UK elections by cracking down on intimidation, influence and disinformation.</p><p>As part of that, the Government has committed to: legislating for a new electoral offence of intimidation; clarifying the electoral offence of undue influence of a voter; implementing an imprints regime for digital election material; and launching a consultation on electoral integrity. Before formally launching the consultation, the Government will be inviting the views of interested groups to establish what the consultation could seek to address, and also see what scope there is for broad cross-party agreement.</p><p>Any legislative changes relating to issues or specific cases in Northern Ireland would, however, be a matter for the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 17/06/2019 14:10:20 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

1130835

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date	10/06/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections: Peterborough
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the number of (1) electors, (2) postal votes cast, and (3) proxy votes applied for, in the Peterborough constituency for (a) the general election in 2010 and (b) the by-election on 6 June.
tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
uin	HL16202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>Data on the number of electors, postal votes cast, and proxy votes applied for in general elections or by-elections are not collected by the Government.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 17/06/2019 14:10:41 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

1130854

registered interest
date	10/06/2019
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many electors required a postal ballot for the recent elections to the European Parliament.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL16221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>Data on the number of postal votes applied for and cast are not collected by the Government. The Electoral Commission will publish this data alongside its statutory report on the European Parliamentary elections in the Autumn.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 17/06/2019 14:07:41 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno