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62713

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date	18/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of staff employed (a) directly and (b) indirectly by his Department were employed on (i) short term and (ii) zero hours contracts in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	201364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>We are unable to provide the number of staff and proportion of those employed by a third party to work indirectly by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). This information is partially held centrally and to collate all of this information as a whole would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>However figures that are held on the MoJ central systems on staff directly employed by the MoJ and its agencies from 2008 to 2014 on (i) short term and (ii) zero hour contracts can be found in the tables below.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>MoJ Staff with Fixed Term Contracts (SFTC) of 12 months or less as per the Office on National Statistics definition can be found below.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>SFTC</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of SFTC Workforce in MoJ </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-08</p></td><td><p>2,087</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-09</p></td><td><p>1,489</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-10</p></td><td><p>1,305</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-11</p></td><td><p>1,025</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-12</p></td><td><p>409</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-13</p></td><td><p>1,372</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-14</p></td><td><p>637</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>MoJ Staff recorded as having no fixed hours of employment i.e. zero hour's contracts.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Staff on Zero Hours contract</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of ‘Zero hour' Workforce</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-08</p></td><td><p>158</p></td><td><p>0.25%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-09</p></td><td><p>208</p></td><td><p>0.29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-10</p></td><td><p>188</p></td><td><p>0.26%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-11</p></td><td><p>204</p></td><td><p>0.26%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-12</p></td><td><p>158</p></td><td><p>0.21%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-13</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>0.17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-14</p></td><td><p>123</p></td><td><p>0.16%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The percentage of MoJ staff on zero hour contracts has been decreasing since 2009.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 08/07/2014 08:19:15 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

62724

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Electoral Commission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what recent assessment the Electoral Commission has made of (a) its successes and (b) failures over the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	201257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>The Commission continuously assesses its work and publishes an annual assessment of progress within its annual report and accounts. The Commission's annual reports and accounts, together with its corporate plans are laid before Parliament each year by Mr Speaker and are available on its website here: <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/our-work/publications/corporate-publications" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/our-work/publications/corporate-publications</a></p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 26/06/2014 10:38:58 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

62725

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the electoral registration rates were in Northern Ireland in each of the last 15 years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	201258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it does not hold data on the electoral registration rate for each of the last 15 years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, the Commission has periodically carried out specific research on levels of registration in Northern Ireland. This found that the local government register for Northern Ireland was 83.4% complete in December 2007 and 73% complete in April 2012.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Following the publication of findings for the April 2012 register, a household canvass was conducted in Northern Ireland in autumn 2013. After the canvass, the Commission reviewed the results and concluded that it had been well run and significantly improved the completeness of the register. The Commission's report can be found here: <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/166999/Report-on-the-Northern-Ireland-electoral-registration-canvass-2013.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/166999/Report-on-the-Northern-Ireland-electoral-registration-canvass-2013.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 26/06/2014 10:24:13 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

62726

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many of the six million people identified as missing on the electoral register by the Electoral Commission in 2011 have been registered to vote in each year since 2011.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	201256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that its last GB wide study into the completeness of electoral registers was completed in 2011. This type of research does not specifically identify unregistered individuals but provides an assessment of the overall accuracy and completeness of the registers. The Commission's next study is being published in July and this will update the picture on levels of completeness in 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 03/07/2014 15:11:57 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

62727

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, if the Electoral Commission will revise its Key Success Measures, Target Performance for completeness of register from 'completeness does not deteriorate' to a policy of 'increasing completion rates year on year'.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	201270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Commission's key success measures are included in its Corporate Plan which is updated and presented to the Speaker's Committee for approval on an annual basis. The next opportunity to update the Corporate Plan will be when the 2015-16 to 2019-20 plan is presented to the Speaker's Committee in spring 2015 and the Commission will be reviewing the key success measures in preparation for this plan in autumn 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 26/06/2014 10:42:52 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

62728

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what recent assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the potential benefits of the inclusion of the actual number and proportion of UK citizens registered to vote as a measure of the Electoral Commission's effectiveness.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	201267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The inclusion of the actual number and proportion of UK citizens registered to vote is not currently included as a key success measure of the Electoral Commission's effectiveness. The Commission's key success measures are reviewed each year and included in its Corporate Plan which is updated and presented to the Speaker's Committee for approval on an annual basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Commission works with Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and other stakeholders to increase the number and proportion of UK citizens registered to vote and therefore the change in registrations cannot be attributed solely to the Commission. Changes in registration rates are also likely to be the result of some factors which do not relate directly to registration practices, including levels of political engagement and changes in population mobility.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, the Commission sets targets for the number of registration forms downloaded from its AboutMyVote website. This measure provides a proxy for the number of registrations attributable to each Commission campaign. The targets for the number of registration forms downloaded vary for each poll taking account of, for example, the size of the electorate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is currently not possible to directly map the number of forms downloaded from the Commission's site to actual registrations as the registers are managed by 363 Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) across Great Britain and EROs do not measure the number of registration forms downloaded from aboutmyvote.co.uk for the specific period of Commission campaigns. Following the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration, the Commission will examine the opportunities presented by online registration to review its registration measurements.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 26/06/2014 10:09:20 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

62729

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many and what proportion of questions answered by the Electoral Commission involving four pages of data or less were (a) placed in the Library without a web link, (b) placed in the Library with a web link and (c) given in full in Hansard in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	201289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Commission informs me that it does not collect this information in the requested format.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 26/06/2014 10:53:51 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

62730

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, which 100 wards in which town, county and constituency in Northern Ireland had (a) the highest electoral registration rate and (b) the lowest registration rate in the latest period for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	201279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it does not hold information about ward electorates for Northern Ireland. This information is held by the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 26/06/2014 11:11:45 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

62731

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	General Election 2010
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, which 100 wards in which town, county and constituency had the lowest turnout for voting in person at the last General Election.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	201280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it does not hold the data requested at ward level.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Commission collects electoral data at each set of polls. In nearly all cases this is collected down to the level of individual contests, which means that it only holds ward level data for local elections.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 26/06/2014 10:49:15 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

62732

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	General Election 2010
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, which wards, in which town, county and constituency had a postal vote turnout greater than 90 per cent at the last General Election.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	201283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission does not hold the data requested at ward level.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Commission collects electoral data at each set of polls. In nearly all cases this is collected down to the level of individual contests, which means that it only holds ward level data for local elections.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 26/06/2014 10:47:35 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane