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1675079

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date	04/12/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Electoral Register: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential role of Automatic Voter Registration in registering UK citizens abroad.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	5044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>In 2014, the then Coalition introduced Individual Electoral Registration. The Government has no plans to reassess its policy with regard to automatic voter registration for resident UK citizens or for registering UK citizens living abroad. The electoral system in the United Kingdom is trust based and voting is not mandatory. The Government opposes automatic voter registration because such a system would risk increasing errors and inaccuracies in the registers.</p><p>The Government understands that the Welsh Government is planning to trial automatic registration for devolved elections and will be paying close attention to any unintended or negative effects on registration for reserved elections.</p><p>The UK Government is working with the Electoral Commission to amplify its messaging to increase awareness of the forthcoming removal of the 15-year limit on British citizens’ living abroad and their eligibility to register and vote in UK Parliamentary elections.</p> answering member constituency North Dorset answering member printed Simon Hoare grouped question UIN 5042 5043 5045 question first answered 11/12/2023 17:22:10 answering member 4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1156203

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Pets: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of making pet theft a specific crime.
tabling member constituency	South Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Alberto Costa
uin	5044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2019 answer text <p>Theft of a pet is already a criminal offence punishable by a penalty of up to 7 years imprisonment. In February 2016, the independent Sentencing Council updated its guidelines in relation to sentencing for theft offences. The guidelines take account of the emotional distress, and therefore harm, that the theft of a much beloved pet can have on the victim, and accordingly recommend higher penalties for such offences.</p> answering member constituency Richmond Park answering member printed Zac Goldsmith question first answered 01/11/2019 17:23:17 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	4439 label Biography information for Alberto Costa

752110

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to improve the accuracy of the real time information it receives from HM Revenue and Customs to calculate awards of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 18 July 2017 to questions 4800 and 4801.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 5055 question first answered 19/07/2017 09:19:01 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

387048

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date	01/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Voluntary Work: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to encourage people to visit elderly neighbours with poor health.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	5044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>In a recent speech to the Local Government Association the Secretary of State for Health urged the public to take more personal responsibility for looking after older people. He stressed that the health service, local government, the voluntary sector as well as individuals themselves need to work together to ensure vulnerable people such as the elderly continue to live their life in the community.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Through the Care Act 2014, the Department has required local authorities to have measures in place to identify people in their area who would benefit from universal services to help reduce, delay or prevent needs for care and support. This includes needs that may arise from social isolation. The Department has supported a ‘digital toolkit’ for local commissioners, which was developed by the Campaign to End Loneliness. Since its launch in July 2012, the toolkit has been supporting commissioners in understanding, mapping and commissioning for loneliness and social isolation in their communities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Care Act also provides for greater support for carers to support family and friends who need help. In the Secretary of State’s speech he committed the Department to develop a new carers’ strategy that looks at the best of international practice and examines what more we can do to support existing carers and the new carers we will need.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department has published its strategic vision for volunteering, <em>Social action for health and well-being: building co-operative communities.</em> This sets out how we can support people to give their time, more often and in ways that fit in with their lives, to bring health and wellbeing benefits for themselves and others in their communities.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 06/07/2015 16:28:10 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon