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date	01/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people with no (a) fixed and (b) permanent address will be able to register to vote using the online registration service.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	148891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>People with no fixed or permanent address can register to vote at an address or place where they spend a large part of their time. The Government has worked, and will continue in the future to work, with homeless charities to make sure that the paperwork required to register without a fixed address can be readily accessed. Citizens can access the paper application to register to vote if they don’t have a fixed abode at the following url; <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-to-vote-if-you-havent-got-a-fixed-or-permanent-address" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-to-vote-if-you-havent-got-a-fixed-or-permanent-address</a>.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 18/06/2018 14:46:35 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

914958

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of people who registered to vote by means of the online registration service did so without providing a national insurance number in (a) 2014, (b) 2015, (c) 2016, (d) 2017 and (e) 2018.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	148892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2018 answer text <p>The online registration service is very popular and enjoys consistently high user satisfaction. The overwhelming majority of people successfully use the service and are able to provide a National Insurance number when doing so. The figures are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><br> <strong>Online registration applications that did not include a National Insurance number (percentage)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 (from launch)</p></td><td><p>2.21%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2.19%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>1.57%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>1.69%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018 (to date)</p></td><td><p>1.56%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>As can be seen, over time the number of applications without a National Insurance number has been falling from already very low levels. This suggests that communications activity making it clear that having a National Insurance number to hand makes online applications easier has had an effect.</p><p> </p><p>These figures also clearly justify the use of National Insurance numbers as the primary means of verifying the identity of applications received through the online system.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 07/06/2018 11:19:01 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith