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223201

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
answering body	Deputy Prime Minister
answering dept id	58
answering dept short name	Deputy Prime Minister
answering dept sort name	Deputy Prime Minister
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment his Department has made of the accuracy of the data provided by the Electoral Commission on the 2014 Electoral Registers used for the implementation of Individual Electoral Registration.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	225145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government has not produced its own analysis.</p><p>The registers used for the implementation of Individual Electoral Registration in 2014 were those published before the transition.</p><p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission has published its own analysis of the completeness and accuracy of the electoral registers published in February in England, and March 2014 in Scotland.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 03/03/2015 10:08:01 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

223352

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Police Air Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how reductions in the budget of the National Police Air Service will be distributed between police forces in North Wales and the North West of England.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	225170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>The National Police Air Service (NPAS) is a police-led operational initiative, with all strategic decisions, including agreeing the budget and operating model, taken by the NPAS Strategic Board which comprises Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) and Chief Constables. The Strategic Board agreed on 19 February to convene a small working group of PCCs to define a more equitable NPAS funding model for all force areas.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 26/02/2015 16:21:56 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

223367

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
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, which 10 local authorities had the greatest proportional drop in electoral registration between 2013 and 2014.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	225165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>The ten authorities that had the largest proportional drop in their registered electorate between February/March and December 2014 are listed in table 5 of the Commission’s report published on 24 February 2015, which is available on its website.</p><p><a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/182375/Analysis-of-the-December-2014-electoral-registers-in-England-and-Wales.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/182375/Analysis-of-the-December-2014-electoral-registers-in-England-and-Wales.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 03/03/2015 15:53:32 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

223368

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
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 much the Electoral Commission plans to spend on television advertising to encourage registration; and how it monitors the effectiveness of such campaigns.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	225166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission’s budget for the production of its television advert ahead of the elections in May 2015 is £263,961, and its budget for purchasing television advertising space is £1,506,733.</p><p>The Electoral Commission uses Government Communication Service guidance on communication evaluation – which provides a model for best practise across the public sector - to inform the evaluation of its public awareness campaigns. The overall target for additions to electoral registers in Great Britain during the Commission’s TV campaign is one million.</p><p>However, given the nature of the format it is impossible to directly attribute voter registration applications and additions to the electoral register to television advertising.</p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 03/03/2015 15:41:20 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

223369

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
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 representations the Electoral Commission has received about monitoring and improving household canvasses from (a) hon. Members and (b) other bodies and individuals.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	225167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission is regularly in communication with a wide range of stakeholders, including (a) Members of Parliament and (b) other bodies and individuals, about a variety of issues relating to electoral registration.</p><p>Details of meetings held by Chair and Chief Executive can be found on the Commission’s website, <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/" target="_blank">www.electoralcommission.org.uk</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 03/03/2015 15:42:14 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

223370

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
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 estimate the Electoral Commission has made of the cost per registration of 16 and 17 year olds who are encouraged to register primarily through (a) television adverts and (b) Bite the Ballot school visits.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	225199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it has made no comparative assessment of the cost-per-registration of 16 and 17 year olds in these two areas given the very different nature of the activity.</p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 03/03/2015 15:44:04 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

223371

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
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 research, actions and advice the Electoral Commission undertook to ensure that (a) students and (b) people living in Houses of Multiple Occupation and other mobile groups did not fall off the electoral register in the run up to Individual Electoral Registration; and what assessment the Commission has made of the success of such actions.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	225198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission provides comprehensive guidance to Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) to support them in maintaining accurate and complete electoral registers. The guidance specifically addresses how EROs can target students and identify residents living in houses of multiple occupation.</p><p>The Commission also provides a range of public engagement resources and templates that can be adapted locally, some of which have been designed to help EROs target specific groups such as students.</p><p>The Commission’s has published an analysis of the December registers in England and Wales, which can be found at: <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/182375/Analysis-of-the-December-2014-electoral-registers-in-England-and-Wales.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/182375/Analysis-of-the-December-2014-electoral-registers-in-England-and-Wales.pdf</a>. This analysis illustrates the challenges of registering students at their term-time address, and the report sets out what action has already been undertaken and what more will continue to be done to target students.</p><p>In light of the analysis of the December registers, the Commission has added an additional strand of activity to its public awareness plans make clear to students that they need to register at their term-time address if they wish to vote in their university constituency.</p><p>The Commission has also been working with the NUS, the Association of Colleges, Universities UK and other bodies to promote voter registration with students and to encourage registration drives on university and college campuses.</p><p>To supplement the work being carried out locally by EROs to work with houses in multiple occupation, the Commission has developed partnerships with a number of housing groups and associations to use their communication channels to promote voter registration.</p><p>The Commission will continue to monitor progress with the transition to individual electoral registration and will report in June 2015 on the state of the registers used at the May polls.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 03/03/2015 15:45:37 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

223372

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
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 advice the Electoral Commission gave to Electoral Registration Officers on (a) maximising the registration of home movers and (b) sending voter registration forms to all households.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	225204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p><strong>The Electoral Commission provides comprehensive guidance to Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) to support them in maintaining accurate and complete electoral registers. This guidance sets out the actions EROs should take to identify potential new electors, such as by making use of local data - including property databases - and partnership work. </strong></p><p><strong>The Commission also provides a range of public engagement resources and templates that can be adapted locally, some of which are specifically designed to help EROs target home movers. </strong></p><p><strong>Additionally, to supplement the work being carried out by EROs, the Commission has developed partnerships with a number of organisations that home movers are likely to come into contact with - such as mortgage advisors - to use their communication channels to promote voter registration.</strong></p><p><strong>In 2014, Household Enquiry Forms (HEFs) – which are designed to identify who is living at a property and eligible to register so that the ERO can invite them to register to vote – were only required to be sent to properties where no electors were registered, or where the ERO believed there may still be other people living at the address who were not registered.</strong></p><p><strong>This means that home-movers have not been captured as effectively as they would have been during a typical annual canvass where all households would receive a form. The processes followed in 2014 were unique in this regard; canvass activity in 2015 and all subsequent years will involve sending household enquiry forms to all properties to check who is resident at an address and to identify new electors who can subsequently be invited to register, and carrying out follow up activity as required.</strong></p><p><strong>To address this gap, the Commission has strongly recommended that all EROs write to all households in their area ahead of the May 2015 polls to check that they have accurate information on who is registered at each address and to prompt those who are not yet registered to apply now. The Commission has welcomed the provision of additional funding by the Cabinet Office, which has helped EROs to do this.</strong></p><p><strong>The Commission has provided guidance to help EROs carry out this activity, and also developed and made available a template ‘household notification letter’ that they could use. The Commission has also </strong><strong>run online paid-for-search advertising to support this activity.</strong></p><p><strong>All EROs have confirmed that they have been or will be carrying out this activity or other comprehensive activity which seeks to address the issues identified by the Commission’s analysis of the 1 December registers, which are set out in full in the report which was published on 24 February and is available at: </strong><a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/182375/Analysis-of-the-December-2014-electoral-registers-in-England-and-Wales.pdf" target="_blank"><strong>http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/182375/Analysis-of-the-December-2014-electoral-registers-in-England-and-Wales.pdf</strong></a><strong>. </strong></p><p><strong>Early feedback from EROs where the activity is now well advanced has indicated that it has had a positive impact on boosting the number of registration applications received. </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 03/03/2015 11:34:32 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

223373

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
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, whether the Electoral Commission has sufficient data to recommend whether the end of the transition to individual electoral registration should be brought forward to December 2015.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	225181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it will be collecting data from Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) on the registers in force for the May 2015 elections. The Electoral Commission is working with Cabinet Office, electoral management software suppliers and EROs to improve the reliability of this data.</p><p>The data, in addition to information already collected, will inform the Commission’s June 2015 assessment on whether the end of the transition to individual electoral registration can be brought forward to December 2015.</p><p>The Commission’s February 2015 report states that without reliable data it is unlikely that the Commission would be able to recommend in any circumstances that the end of the transition to individual electoral registration should be brought forward to December 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 03/03/2015 15:50:57 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

223374

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
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 interim assessments the Electoral Commission has made of the accuracy of the data on registration rates collected in the run-up to the introduction of individual electoral registration; and what procedures were in place to enable concerns about that data to be raised.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	225180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission informs me that the main source of reliable information on registration rates have been the Commission’s own reports on the accuracy and completeness of the electoral registers. The most recent report was published in July 2014 and is available on the Commission’s website, here: <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/169889/Completeness-and-accuracy-of-the-2014-electoral-registers-in-Great-Britain.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/169889/Completeness-and-accuracy-of-the-2014-electoral-registers-in-Great-Britain.pdf</a></p><p>The household surveying methodology for these studies and the analysis conducted on the findings are robust. The findings were also recently verified by a separate study using census data which found, for the same electoral registers, similar levels of accuracy and completeness as the household survey.</p><p>In addition, the Office for National Statistics annually collects and publishes the number of entries on the 1 December electoral registers. The Office for National Statistics checks any apparent anomalies in the data with the relevant Electoral Registration Officers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 03/03/2015 15:51:50 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane