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759602

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much has been paid to (a) men and (b) women who left the Law Officers' Departments under exit schemes since 31 March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	10044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is containing in the following tables, broken down into the different Law Officers' Departments.</p><p><strong>SFO</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Individuals leaving the SFO under exit schemes since 31 March 2016</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Gender</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total payment</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Women</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>£281k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Men</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>£324k</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Attorney General’s Office (AGO), the Government Legal Department (GLD) and Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI)</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Individuals leaving the AGO, GLD and HMCPSI under exit schemes since 31 March 2016</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Gender</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total payment</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Women</p></td><td><p>Fewer than 5</p></td><td><p>£172,148</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Men</p></td><td><p>Fewer than 5</p></td><td><p>£317,933</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since 31 March 2016, there have been 5 or fewer men and 5 or fewer women who have left the Attorney General’s Office (AGO), the Government Legal Department (GLD) and Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) under an early exit scheme.</p><p><strong>CPS</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Individuals leaving the CPS under exit schemes since 31 March 2016</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Gender</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total payment</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Women</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>£1,024,651</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Men</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>£500,040</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 26/09/2017 12:38:27 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

759604

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has been paid to (a) men and (b) women who left his Department under exit schemes since 31 March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	10045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>Details of the number, type, compensation levels and cost of exits from my Department<br>are routinely published in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts. These are<br>available on the Cabinet Office website at<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cabinet-office- annual-reports- and-accounts .</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/10/2017 15:02:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

759605

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Registration Officers: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for electoral registration officers.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	10117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The majority of electoral registration activity is funded by local authorities across England,<br>Scotland and Wales. Since 2014 the Cabinet Office has provided funding to LAs to cover<br>the additional costs generated by the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration,<br>including a second bidding round after the canvass if initial funding is insufficient to cover<br>costs incurred over the year.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:32:18 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

759606

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the UK voter registration system.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	10165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The most recent formal assessment of register quality, based on the 1 December 2015 registers<br>and published in July 2016, found that individual electoral registration boosted the accuracy of the<br>register by 4 per cent</p><p>Alongside individual registration, the successful introduction of online registration has transformed<br>the way citizens can register. It now takes just a few minutes to apply to register and nearly 30<br>million citizens have taken the opportunity to do so in the last three years. In large part thanks to<br>online registration, the parliamentary register used for the 2017 general election was the largest<br>ever at nearly 47 million</p><p>2.9 million applications were submitted between the calling of the election and the registration<br>deadline date, with 622,000 applications coming on deadline day itself</p><p>The government has continued to modernise the registration process and to make it more<br>accessible, as underscored, for example by recent policy commitments on making it easier for<br>survivors of domestic abuse to register anonymously.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:54:41 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

759607

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Proof of Identity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 15 December 2016 to Question 57073, what the cost to the public purse of the gov.uk Verify system has been to date.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	10203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>There are no more recent audited figures than those published in the answer of 15<br>December 2016 to Question 57073, GOV.UK Verify has cost £54.4m to develop and has<br>saved £111.44m.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/10/2017 12:17:59 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

759608

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Returning Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to codify the roles and responsibilities of tellers at polling stations.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>Guidance on the roles and responsibilities of tellers is already produced by the Electoral<br>Commission. Tellers must also act in accordance with any further guidance provided by<br>the relevant Returning Officer or their staff. There are currently no plans to put such<br>guidance on a statutory footing.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:51:08 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

759609

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the timetable is to bring forward proposals on the registration of people in (i) universities, (ii) colleges, (iii) residential care homes and (iv) houses in multiple occupation.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government intends to publish a democratic engagement strategy addressing<br>registration issues in late 2017.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:47:57 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

759610

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the timetable is to bring forward proposals to tackle duplicate voter registrations.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office is committed to finding an appropriate approach to reducing the burden of duplicate applications while ensuring that unnecessary barriers to registration are avoided. The fact that millions of people have taken the step of applying to register online shows it was right to introduce the website as part of Individual Electoral Registration.</p><p>We have already taken steps to limit unnecessary duplicate applications to register. For example during the recent general election we added a new page to the website to guide people away from making applications when they did not need to.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2017 14:45:55 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

759611

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Elections: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of an electronic system for the delivery, receipt and return of the Writ at UK parliamentary elections.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2017 answer text <p>There are no immediate plans to do so. The process for serving election Writs is set out in the Representation of the People Act 1983. However, the Government continues to work with the Law Commissions, as well as other stakeholders such as the Electoral Commission, to streamline the electoral process.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 20/09/2017 15:47:27 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

759612

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the timetable is to bring forward proposals to improve data-sharing in the voter registration process.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	10232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>Electoral Returning Officers (EROs) already have wide powers to access data to improve<br>the quality of the register. The Cabinet Office is working with administrators and their<br>representatives and the Electoral Commission to investigate additional potential use of<br>data to aid EROs in their registration duties.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:39:16 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith