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1142283

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a pilot scheme allowing election-day voter registration in polling stations.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	282228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to introduce election day registration. To work effectively and securely, it would require all polling stations in a constituency to be electronically linked and the register updated in real time to prevent anyone registering and voting in one<br />polling station and moving quickly to another to do the same. This would present considerable technical challenges and carry significant cost.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">Such a change would introduce uncertainties as to the register to be used for the election and undermine confidence in the process if candidates were unable to challenge any unusual trends in registration prior to Polling Day.</ins></p><p>Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) are legally responsible for determining who is eligible to vote in polls in their local areas. Coming to a determination can take time and cannot be done instantaneously.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 03/09/2019 09:22:51 question first ministerially corrected 05/09/2019 14:18:34 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 132660 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1138088

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Absent Voting: Fraud
	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 tackle postal vote fraud.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	275735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2019 answer text <p>Electoral fraud is unacceptable on any level. There are already measures in place designed to enhance the security of postal voting.</p><p>In response to (the then) Sir Eric Pickles report on electoral fraud, the Government accepted recommendations to strengthen the postal vote system and, in line with our manifesto commitment, we are working to reform postal voting to ensure our elections are secure.</p><p>The Government will look for opportunities to introduce measures that will restrict the handling of postal votes by people who may seek to abuse or subvert them. We will also look to introduce controls on the return of postal votes via polling stations, which has been a cause for concern in past elections.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 16/07/2019 14:08:12 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

1145540

	registered interest
	date	24/09/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Advertising: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse is of the get ready for Brexit advertising campaign to date.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	290437
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>In law the UK is set to leave the EU on 31 October 2019. “Get Ready for Brexit” is a public information campaign providing the facts citizens and businesses need to know about the preparations they need to take to be ready for when the UK leaves the EU.</p><p>The campaign is a cross-government campaign using national advertising including TV, radio, press, digital and outdoor advertising. It also includes direct engagement and local elements including business preparedness events, ministerial visits and local authority activity.</p><p>The cost of the public information campaign will be published monthly on a rolling basis, as part of routine government transparency arrangements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 290765 290970 question first answered 30/09/2019 13:49:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1133165

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Antisocial Behaviour: North West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many reports of anti-social behaviour have been recorded in (a) Cumbria Constabulary, (b) Lancashire Constabulary and (c) Merseyside Constabulary in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	266719
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 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 Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 27/06/2019 09:56:04 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster attachment 1 file name PQ 266719.pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1147456

	registered interest
	date	01/10/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Ballot Papers: Visual Impairment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department has taken since the judgment issued by Mr Justice Swift in May 2019 that the tactile voting device for blind people was unlawful.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	292863
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government continues to work with the Cabinet Office chaired Accessibility of Elections Working Group to make an informed assessment of the most suitable options to take forward. We are due to hold a dedicated meeting on this topic with the Royal National Institute of Blind People shortly.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 292864 question first answered 03/10/2019 14:18:09 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1145773

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total cost to the public purse is of the Get Ready For Brexit campaign.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	290765
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>In law the UK is set to leave the EU on 31 October 2019. “Get Ready for Brexit” is a public information campaign providing the facts citizens and businesses need to know about the preparations they need to take to be ready for when the UK leaves the EU.</p><p>The campaign is a cross-government campaign using national advertising including TV, radio, press, digital and outdoor advertising. It also includes direct engagement and local elements including business preparedness events, ministerial visits and local authority activity.</p><p>The cost of the public information campaign will be published monthly on a rolling basis, as part of routine government transparency arrangements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 290437 290970 question first answered 30/09/2019 13:49:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1145842

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has received legal advice on the compliance of the Get ready for Brexit campaign with the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Mr Gavin Shuker
	uin	290816
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>In law that the UK is set to leave the EU on 31 October 2019. “Get Ready for Brexit” is a public information campaign providing the facts citizens and businesses need to know about the preparations they need to take to be ready for when the UK leaves the EU.</p><p>The campaign is a cross-government campaign using national advertising including TV, radio, press, digital and outdoor advertising. It also includes direct engagement and local elements including business preparedness events, ministerial visits and local authority activity.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 290817 290961 question first answered 30/09/2019 13:50:44 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4013 label Biography information for Mr Gavin Shuker

1145844

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to amend the Get Ready for Brexit advertising campaign as a result of the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Mr Gavin Shuker
	uin	290817
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>In law that the UK is set to leave the EU on 31 October 2019. “Get Ready for Brexit” is a public information campaign providing the facts citizens and businesses need to know about the preparations they need to take to be ready for when the UK leaves the EU.</p><p>The campaign is a cross-government campaign using national advertising including TV, radio, press, digital and outdoor advertising. It also includes direct engagement and local elements including business preparedness events, ministerial visits and local authority activity.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 290816 290961 question first answered 30/09/2019 13:50:44 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4013 label Biography information for Mr Gavin Shuker

1145859

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the effects of the UK leaving the EU without a deal that cannot be mitigated; and what assessment he has made of the potential effect on the UK of those unmitigated effects.
	tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
	tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
	uin	291058
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government is continuing to prepare for our exit from the European Union and we are making all necessary preparations to ensure we are ready whatever the circumstances, including a no deal scenario. The Government has published extensive material relating to Brexit on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/brexit" target="_blank">Gov.UK/Brexit</a>.</p><p>The Hon. Member may wish to refer to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster’s statement to the House on <a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-09-25/debates/B2BCE472-527C-4549-B23F-A34C4D8F4160/BrexitReadinessOperationYellowhammer" target="_blank">Brexit readiness and Operation Yellowhammer</a>, made on 25 September 2019 for more information relating to this question on the effects and mitigations to a no deal exit.</p><p>The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster also wrote to the Chair of the Commons EU Exit Committee on 25 September 2019 confirming a document outlining the no deal mitigations the Government has put in place and intends to put in place will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 291118 question first answered 30/09/2019 15:38:33 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach

1146028

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason parts of Operation Yellowhammer: HMG Reasonable Worst Case Planning Assumptions, published on 11 September 2019 are redacted; and whether he plans to publish those redacted parts.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	290657
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the letter by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to the Chair of the EU Exit Committee. This was sent to all members in response to the Humble Address motion of 9 September, and set out the reasons for redaction.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 30/09/2019 16:49:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett