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registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much funding from the public purse was allocated to the 2016 EU referendum for the (a) hire of accommodation for counting votes, (b) printing of polling cards, (c) distribution of polling cards and (d) accommodation for the opening of postal votes.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	108580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>The responsibility for managing the funding for national referendums using monies from the Consolidated Fund rests with the Electoral Commission. Counting Officers are given an overall maximum recoverable amount to cover the costs of running the poll. This is based on expenditure on the previous poll, updated for current circumstances, and is aimed to support flexibility in use of the monies by Counting Officers to make it work for the particular needs of their voting area.</p><p>In reference to the overall costs of the 2016 EU Referendum, please see the following Written Statement, presented to Parliament on 23rd March 2016 by the then Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office, John Penrose MP:</p><p><a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-03-23/debates/16032338000011/EUReferendum(CountingOfficers%E2%80%99Regulations)" target="_blank">https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-03-23/debates/16032338000011/EUReferendum(CountingOfficers%E2%80%99Regulations)</a> .</p><p>The European Union Referendum (Counting Officers’ and Regional Counting Officers’ Charges) Regulations 2016 lists the maximum recoverable amounts (MRA) for the services and expenses of counting officers and regional counting officers:</p><p><a href="https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/199442/The-European-Union-Referendum-Counting-Officers-and-Regional-Counting-Officers-Charges-Regulations-2016.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/199442/The-European-Union-Referendum-Counting-Officers-and-Regional-Counting-Officers-Charges-Regulations-2016.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 26/10/2017 13:00:11 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

722519

registered interest
date	19/04/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department or its agencies hold any information on the alleged interference by foreign states or their agents in the EU referendum campaign; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	71375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>I will not comment on operational or intelligence matters, however I can assure you that the Government has seen no successful interference in our electoral process to date.</p><p>Our system of paper balloting and hand counting means UK voting mechanisms do not lend themselves to direct electronic manipulation. A series of protective measures were put in place ahead of the 2015 General Election, designed to be sufficiently enduring to mitigate future threats, including the EU referendum.</p><p>The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) offers UK organisations, including political parties, access to the best cyber security advice and support to help them meet their responsibility to protect their information and prevent cyber attacks from all possible threats.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 24/04/2017 16:56:27 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

535485

registered interest
date	12/07/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
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 effectiveness of electoral registration arrangements for UK nationals abroad in (a) general and (b) Germany in advance of the EU referendum.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	42477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>Online registration has made the application process for overseas electors easier than ever before. Between the start of the EU referendum campaign on 18 April and the extended registration deadline on 9 June over 151,000 overseas electors submitted an application to register to vote.</p><p>The Cabinet Office does not hold data on overseas elector applications by country.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/07/2016 13:10:29 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

532995

registered interest
date	05/07/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the potential merits of using the electoral registration data relating to the recent EU referendum as baseline data for the boundary review of parliamentary constituencies.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	41951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission does not have responsibility for this issue and the Government is not aware of any recent assessment made by them on this matter. The Government remains committed to addressing the unfairness of current Parliamentary boundaries by making votes of more equal value. Changing the base data for the review now would risk the work of the Boundary Commissions not being implemented for the next election, meaning that the next general election would be fought on the basis of registers that are up to 20 years old.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 11/07/2016 16:01:30 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

524201

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
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 those non-UK citizens who are not eligible to vote are not able to vote in the EU referendum.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	40157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>The EU referendum will be overseen by the Chief Counting Officer, chair of the Electoral Commission, who is responsible for making sure the referendum is held in accordance with the legislation governing the conduct of the poll. The Electoral Commission has issued a statement setting out the actions that have been taken to address an issue with elections software used by a number of local authorities in England and Wales that meant that some non-eligible EU citizens had mistakenly received poll cards and, in some instances, postal votes. The Commission explains that the software provider has resolved the issue and none of the affected electors will be shown as eligible on the electoral registers to be used at polling stations on the 23 June. Any incorrectly issued postal votes will be cancelled.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 40158 40169 40170 question first answered 14/06/2016 16:02:13 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

524202

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will request that the Electoral Commission investigate the extent to which the electoral roll prepared for the EU referendum on 23 June 2016 contains citizens of EU countries who are not eligible to vote.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	40158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>The EU referendum will be overseen by the Chief Counting Officer, chair of the Electoral Commission, who is responsible for making sure the referendum is held in accordance with the legislation governing the conduct of the poll. The Electoral Commission has issued a statement setting out the actions that have been taken to address an issue with elections software used by a number of local authorities in England and Wales that meant that some non-eligible EU citizens had mistakenly received poll cards and, in some instances, postal votes. The Commission explains that the software provider has resolved the issue and none of the affected electors will be shown as eligible on the electoral registers to be used at polling stations on the 23 June. Any incorrectly issued postal votes will be cancelled.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 40157 40169 40170 question first answered 14/06/2016 16:02:13 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

524205

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will request that the Electoral Commission investigate the extent to which the electoral roll prepared for the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU 2016 includes citizens of EU countries who are not eligible to vote.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	40169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>The EU referendum will be overseen by the Chief Counting Officer, chair of the Electoral Commission, who is responsible for making sure the referendum is held in accordance with the legislation governing the conduct of the poll. The Electoral Commission has issued a statement setting out the actions that have been taken to address an issue with elections software used by a number of local authorities in England and Wales that meant that some non-eligible EU citizens had mistakenly received poll cards and, in some instances, postal votes. The Commission explains that the software provider has resolved the issue and none of the affected electors will be shown as eligible on the electoral registers to be used at polling stations on the 23 June. Any incorrectly issued postal votes will be cancelled.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 40157 40158 40170 question first answered 14/06/2016 16:02:13 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

524206

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
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 non-UK citizens who are not eligible to vote are not able to vote in the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	40170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>The EU referendum will be overseen by the Chief Counting Officer, chair of the Electoral Commission, who is responsible for making sure the referendum is held in accordance with the legislation governing the conduct of the poll. The Electoral Commission has issued a statement setting out the actions that have been taken to address an issue with elections software used by a number of local authorities in England and Wales that meant that some non-eligible EU citizens had mistakenly received poll cards and, in some instances, postal votes. The Commission explains that the software provider has resolved the issue and none of the affected electors will be shown as eligible on the electoral registers to be used at polling stations on the 23 June. Any incorrectly issued postal votes will be cancelled.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 40157 40158 40169 question first answered 14/06/2016 16:02:13 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

522975

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that people who are not eligible to vote in the EU referendum and who have received ballot papers in error are not able to use those ballot papers.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	39294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>The EU referendum will be overseen by the Chief Counting Officer, chair of the independent Electoral Commission, who is responsible for making sure the referendum is held in accordance with the legislation governing the conduct of the poll. The Electoral Commission has recently issued a statement setting out the actions that have been taken to address an issue with elections software used by a number of local authorities in England and Wales. They will ensure that any postal votes which have been issued to electors who are not eligible to vote in the referendum will be cancelled and none of these electors will be shown as eligable on the electoral register to be used at polling stations on the 23rd June.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 14/06/2016 16:10:58 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

522442

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that postal votes and ballot papers are sent only to eligible voters for the forthcoming EU referendum.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	39266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The referendum will be overseen by the Chief Counting Officer, chair of the independent Electoral Commission, who is responsible for making sure the referendum is held in accordance with the legislation. The Electoral Commission made a statement on &quot;non-eligible EU citizen voters&quot; on the 2 June 2016 which can be found at <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 13/06/2016 15:28:31 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith