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42305

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date	10/03/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electorial Commission
answering dept id	36
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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 assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the potential benefits of using (a) student unions and (b) other university and college venues as polling stations.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	191354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that between 2002 and 2007 a number of English local authorities piloted the use of alternative locations as polling stations, although these did not include student unions or other university and college premises. The locations included railway stations, supermarkets, libraries and other local authority venues.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Commission's statutory evaluation of the pilot schemes concluded that the convenience of voting at alternative locations was appreciated by some voters, although the impact on turnout was minimal.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>At present, the legislation provides that Returning Officers may use certain publicly-funded schools or “rooms funded out of any rate” free of charge as premises for polling stations. The Electoral Commission has recommended that Returning Officers should be permitted to use a wider range of publicly-funded buildings as polling stations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

42306

registered interest
date	10/03/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electorial Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
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 percentage of those registered to vote by post did so in (a) police commissioner elections and (b) the local European elections in each electoral area; and what the percentage turnout was at polling stations in each election and in each area.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	191355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that the turnout figures at the Police and Crime Commissioner elections were as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2012 Police and Crime Commissioner elections </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>In-person turnout %</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postal voter turnout %</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England and Wales</p></td><td><p>9.2</p></td><td><p>48.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Avon and Somerset</p></td><td><p>13.8</p></td><td><p>52.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p>13.2</p></td><td><p>52.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p>10.5</p></td><td><p>49.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire</p></td><td><p>8.4</p></td><td><p>48.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cleveland</p></td><td><p>9.0</p></td><td><p>48.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p>10.1</p></td><td><p>50.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td><td><p>49.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon and Cornwall</p></td><td><p>10.1</p></td><td><p>43.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p>11.3</p></td><td><p>53.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p>6.7</p></td><td><p>45.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>8.3</p></td><td><p>48.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>11.4</p></td><td><p>48.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>7.3</p></td><td><p>44.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire</p></td><td><p>9.5</p></td><td><p>50.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td><td><p>48.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humberside</p></td><td><p>14.5</p></td><td><p>60.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p>10.5</p></td><td><p>52.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p>7.9</p></td><td><p>49.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>11.2</p></td><td><p>52.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td><td><p>49.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p>6.3</p></td><td><p>48.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p>9.5</p></td><td><p>49.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>9.0</p></td><td><p>46.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>12.9</p></td><td><p>50.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p>6.3</p></td><td><p>44.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>9.8</p></td><td><p>53.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>6.1</p></td><td><p>46.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>6.9</p></td><td><p>48.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk</p></td><td><p>10.3</p></td><td><p>50.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>9.9</p></td><td><p>48.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sussex</p></td><td><p>10.1</p></td><td><p>49.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>8.7</p></td><td><p>45.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>10.3</p></td><td><p>54.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Mercia</p></td><td><p>8.4</p></td><td><p>47.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>8.6</p></td><td><p>47.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>7.3</p></td><td><p>47.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>10.3</p></td><td><p>44.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dyfed-Powys</p></td><td><p>11.3</p></td><td><p>46.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gwent</p></td><td><p>8.3</p></td><td><p>44.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Wales</p></td><td><p>9.8</p></td><td><p>47.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Wales</p></td><td><p>8.6</p></td><td><p>44.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The turnout figures at the 2009 European Parliament elections were:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2009 English European elections</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>In-person turnout %</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postal voter turnout %</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Kingdom</p></td><td><p>30.3</p></td><td><p>64.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Great Britain</p></td><td><p>29.9</p></td><td><p>64.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>30.8</p></td><td><p>64.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>42.6</p></td><td><p>68.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>24.4</p></td><td><p>63.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>25.4</p></td><td><p>61.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>30.0</p></td><td><p>61.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>34.8</p></td><td><p>67.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>33.5</p></td><td><p>67.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eastern</p></td><td><p>34.0</p></td><td><p>66.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>31.3</p></td><td><p>66.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>32.8</p></td><td><p>66.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire &amp; the Humber</p></td><td><p>26.8</p></td><td><p>63.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>21.4</p></td><td><p>59.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>26.3</p></td><td><p>63.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

42307

registered interest
date	10/03/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electorial Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
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 local authority (a) augmented and (b) did not augment Department for Work and Pensions data matching with the electoral register with local authority data matching.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	191356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that 137 local authorities provided data to them on their local data matching activities following the trial of matching with the DWP in 2013. The table below lists these local authorities. Those that did not provide data may still have carried out local data matching work.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Reported on local data matching activities</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amber Valley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Argyll &amp; Bute</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ashfield</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aylesbury Vale</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barking &amp; Dagenham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bassetlaw</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bath &amp; North East Somerset</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bexley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blaby</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolsover</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bournemouth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bracknell Forest</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brighton &amp; Hove</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bromley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bromsgrove</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Broxbourne</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Broxtowe</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Burnley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Calderdale</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Canterbury</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carlisle</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Bedfordshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ceredigion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheltenham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Christchurch</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Conwy</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coventry</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dartford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daventry</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Denbighshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire Dales</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dudley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dumfries &amp; Galloway</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Dorset</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Dunbartonshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Lindsey</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Lothian</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Northamptonshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Renfrewshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eastleigh</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eden</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Edinburgh, City of</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Elmbridge</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Flintshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Forest of Dean</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gosport</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gravesham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Guildford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gwynedd</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Halton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hambleton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hammersmith &amp; Fulham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harborough</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harrogate</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hastings</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Havant</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Herefordshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>High Peak</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hillingdon</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hyndburn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Inverclyde</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ipswich</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kensington and Chelsea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kettering</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston upon Thames</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lewisham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincoln</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Luton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mansfield</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Medway</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Melton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlothian</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Milton Keynes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mole Valley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Neath Port Talbot</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Forest</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newport</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Dorset</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Kesteven</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Lincolnshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Somerset</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Tyneside</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Warwickshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West Leicestershire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Orkney Islands</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pendle</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poole</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Purbeck</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redcar &amp; Cleveland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redditch</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Renfrewshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Richmond upon Thames</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Richmondshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rossendale</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rotherham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rushcliffe</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rushmoor</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sandwell</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sedgemoor</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sefton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shepway</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shropshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Derbyshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Gloucestershire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Kesteven</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Ribble</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southend-on-Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Edmundsbury</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St. Helens</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire Moorlands</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stockport</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey Heath</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swale</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swindon</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tamworth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tandridge</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thanet</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thurrock</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tonbridge &amp; Malling</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Walsall</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warrington</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Watford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Waverley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Berkshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Dunbartonshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Lindsey</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Lothian</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wigan</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wiltshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wolverhampton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wychavon</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wyre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

42308

registered interest
date	10/03/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electorial Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
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 local authority databases may be consulted by local authority electoral registration officers for the purpose of data matching for the electoral register.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	191357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2014 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission informs me that Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) are entitled to access any records kept in any form by the local authority which appointed them, for the purpose of meeting their registration duties. These records may include, for example, council tax, social services and education records. Access to these records serves a dual purpose: to identify potential new electors and to check that registered electors continue to be eligible to be registered.</p><p> </p><p>As direct access to records is limited to records held by the appointing authority, in those parts of England where there are two tiers of local government, EROs are currently unable to directly access county council records (such as education records). The Commission understands that the Government is planning to legislate to enable records held by county councils to be shared with EROs for the purposes of maintaining and improving the accuracy and completeness of electoral registers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 18/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

42309

registered interest
date	10/03/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electorial Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
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 place in the Library a copy of the newly-designed Household Registration Form and the Invitation to Register forms.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	191358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that these forms have been formally approved by the Minister of State, and as such the Cabinet Office will be placing them in the Library shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

42312

registered interest
date	10/03/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electorial Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
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 assessment the Electoral Commission has made on the viability of permitting people to vote in any polling station in their constituency or local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	191353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that permitting people to vote electronically at any polling station within a specific ward or local authority area was piloted by a number of English local authorities between 2002 and 2007 as part of the previous UK Government's electoral pilot scheme programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Commission's statutory evaluation of the pilot schemes concluded that while some people welcomed the convenience of “vote anywhere” polling stations, the impact on turnout was minimal and there were significant technical problems associated with the facility in some areas.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Commission has recommended that there should be no further piloting of electronic voting – including “vote anywhere” polling stations – without the development of a wider electoral modernisation strategy, which should take account of the specific risks related to electronic voting, as well as its cost-effectiveness and likely impact on public trust.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

42329

registered interest
date	10/03/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of his Department's databases of people (a) in receipt of and (b) not in receipt of benefits for the purposes of data matching with the electoral register.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	191352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Results of DWP data matching with the Electoral Register have been subjected to review by both the Electoral Commission and Electoral Registration Transformation Programme with positive results</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>No separate assessment has been made of accuracy of data for benefit and non-benefit recipients for the purposes of data matching with the electoral register. </p><p> </p><p>To undertake such an assessment would entail disproportionate costs due to the need to contact and compare citizen details against data held by DWP.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 17/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

42347

registered interest
date	10/03/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what additional funding his Department allocated to the town of Rhyl for the purpose of piloting back-to-work projects in each year since 1997.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	191213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The information requested is not readilly available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 17/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane