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registered interest
date	18/03/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much funding has been allocated to improve voter registration levels among Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people since 2018.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2021 answer text <p>Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) have the statutory responsibility for compiling and maintaining complete and accurate registers for their local areas. The Electoral Commission (EC) is responsible for providing guidance and resources to help EROs and their staff in running electoral registration, for setting standards, and for monitoring the performance of EROs. The Commission runs campaigns to raise awareness of how people can register to vote, and how to cast their vote.</p><p>The Government ensures that EROs have the tools that they need to do their job efficiently. For example, changes to the annual canvass in Great Britain has provided EROs with greater flexibility to target their resources where they are needed, rather than on the majority of properties, where nothing has changed.</p><p>The Government is committed to encouraging democratic engagement amongst all electors, including underrepresented groups. Since 2013, the Government has provided more than £27m to fund activities to promote electoral registration and democratic engagement more widely.</p><p>Third-party organisations delivered events and activities during National Democracy Week (NDW), and the Government facilitated workshops with Democratic Engagement Champions in preparation for the week. The Government has no plans to run NDW in 2021. Instead, the Government will focus on its unique responsibilities as legislator, funder and promoter of good practice.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 171643 171645 171646 171647 question first answered 23/03/2021 17:53:56 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1256529

registered interest
date	30/11/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Ethnic Groups
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to consult with (a) Operation Black Vote, and (b) representatives of communities under represented on electoral registers, about ways (1) to increase representation on the electoral register, (2) to encourage participation in elections, (3) to increase social mobility through the availability of credit to those on the electoral register, and (4) to help to make juries, drawn from the electoral register, more representative.
tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
uin	HL10907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2020 answer text <p>Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) have the statutory responsibility for maintaining complete and accurate registers for their areas. The Government’s role is to ensure EROs have the tools they need to do their jobs efficiently and effectively. This includes, for example, the recent changes to the annual canvass in Great Britain which will improve its overall efficiency considerably which will allow EROs to focus their efforts on hard to reach groups, and play an important role in helping to maintain register accuracy and completeness.</p><p>As it stands, National Insurance Number letters issued by HM Revenue and Customs state that you need your National Insurance Number to register to vote. Cabinet Office officials are in discussions with colleagues in HMRC regarding what further information could be included to help inform individuals about the registration process, and if it may be clarified.</p><p>The Government is committed to making registration as easy as possible and we encourage everyone who is eligible to register to vote.</p><p>Responsibility for the design of electoral registration forms, including the Invitation to Register form and all Canvass Communications lies with the Electoral Commission, with the Government providing final approval. The Electoral Commission undertakes extensive user testing of the forms to ensure they are as effective as possible at eliciting the appropriate response. Cabinet Office officials are regularly consulted by the Electoral Commission during the design stages of any new forms and also when changes are proposed to existing forms.</p> answering member printed Lord True grouped question UIN HL10905 HL10906 HL10908 question first answered 14/12/2020 17:49:05 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

1256799

registered interest
date	30/11/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights report entitled, Black people, racism and human rights, published on 11 November 2020, what plans she has to consult on the effect of the implementation of automatic voter registration on increasing democratic participation among Black people.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	122816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answers given to PQs <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-11-12/114938" target="_blank">114938</a>, <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-10-12/102161" target="_blank">102161</a> and <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-10-16/104752" target="_blank">104752</a>.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 122817 question first answered 09/12/2020 17:07:26 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1256800

registered interest
date	30/11/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of automatic voter registration on voter turnout among (a) Black people and (b) other ethnic minorities.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	122817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answers given to PQs <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-11-12/114938" target="_blank">114938</a>, <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-10-12/102161" target="_blank">102161</a> and <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-10-16/104752" target="_blank">104752</a>.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 122816 question first answered 09/12/2020 17:07:26 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1251329

registered interest
date	12/11/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to improve voting registration rates among black people in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	114938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2020 answer text <p>Electoral Registration Officers have statutory responsibility for maintaining complete and accurate electoral registers for their areas. The Government seeks to make registration as easy as possible and to work with many others to reduce any barriers to registration. We encourage everyone who is eligible to register to vote, and registering to vote has never been easier or more convenient.</p><p>The Government opposes automatic registration as it contradicts the principle that individuals are responsible for registering and that this should be done at a time and place of their choosing. Automatic registration would raise privacy and security concerns. It would also risk introducing errors and inaccuracies to the registers, creating unwarranted opportunities for fraud.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 114939 question first answered 17/11/2020 17:08:32 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1140978

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
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: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what recent discussions the Commission has had with (a) church and community leaders from black and minority ethnic communities and (b) Operation Black Vote on increasing registration levels for voters in those communities.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	280158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2019 answer text <p>We know from our research of the electoral registers that voters from BME communities are less likely to be registered to vote when compared with white voters.</p><p>As part of all of its public awareness campaigns ahead of elections, the Electoral Commission provides voter registration resources to a wide range of groups or individuals, to use in encouraging registration. These are freely available via the Commission’s website or its ‘Roll Call’ newsletter, to which anyone can subscribe.</p><p>We also identify specific organisations who could help promote registration to under-registered groups and actively provide these partners with resources: these have recently included, for example, the Council of African and Caribbean Churches and the Muslim Women’s network. It also works closely with Electoral Registration Officers, who hold many important relationships with church and community leaders to promote voter registration at a local level.</p><p>The Commission most recently contacted Operation Black Vote ahead of the Government’s voter ID pilots which took place in May 2019, to seek a contribution to its statutory evaluation of the pilots. It did not receive a response.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 05/08/2019 10:30:44 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane