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<p>Organisations such as the Electoral Commission had long advocated for the replacement
of the household registration system with individual electoral registration. When
the new system was introduced in 2014 this was with cross-party support.</p><p>Since
the end of the transition to individual electoral registration in 2015 we have gathered
considerable evidence that the system is working well, including thanks to the introduction
of online registration. In July 2016, the Electoral Commission reported that the December
2015 registers were 91 per cent accurate, a statistically significant increase compared
to the 2014 registers (the last compiled using household registration). Completeness
was seen to be stable at around 85 per cent.</p><p>By the time of the 2017 General
Election, the electoral register had grown to its largest ever size. Our registration
service has seen the submission of more than 30 million applications.</p><p>We are
not complacent and we will continue to make efforts to modernise the registration
system and to improve access to it, including through our democratic engagement plan.</p>
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