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1141264

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many electoral registration officers have been convicted of an offence related to failure to take sufficient steps to register electors under section 9A of the Electoral Registration Act 2006.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	280935
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office is not aware of any convictions of electoral registration officers under section 9A of the Electoral Registration Act 2006.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 280936 question first answered 26/07/2019 13:05:37 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1141076

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Local Government: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many local authorities in England have reduced their total workforce by (a) 500-999 employees, (b) 1,000-1,999 employees and (c) over 2,000 employees since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	280166
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 280165 question first answered 25/07/2019 10:38:20 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden attachment 1 file name Combined PQ280165 and 280166.pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1141259

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	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, if he will commission research on the effect of levels of functional illiteracy on electoral registration rates.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	280930
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>In its democratic engagement plan, Every Voice Matters: Building a Democracy That Works For Everyone, the Government explored key barriers to registration identified through research and face to face engagement. We are tackling these barriers, including those faced by survivors of domestic abuse, homeless electors and young people, and have reported on our progress in our follow up report, Democratic Engagement: Respecting, Protecting and Promoting our Democracy.</p><p>Although it did not emerge as a factor in its own right, we are aware of the potential contribution that lack of literacy makes to the under registration of a number of groups, such as those with learning disabilities, homeless people and those with specific language barriers.</p><p>The voter registration website is reviewed regularly to ensure it meets the Government’s service design standards to make it as easy to use as possible and we have produced easy read guides to registering to vote in partnership with Mencap. We are also working with civil society organisations to encourage engagement with those under registered groups who are more likely to experience lower levels of literacy.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 26/07/2019 13:06:31 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1140959

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of ring-fencing funds allocated by his Department to local government for the purpose of voter registration.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	280150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>Funding for the annual household canvass and year round electoral registration (in addition to funding for polls at a local level) is paid for by the local authority using monies from the Revenue Support Grant (RSG) provided through MHCLG and the revenue raised by the authority through council tax, business rates and any reserves. This provides the majority of the funding for electoral registration.</p><p>Since the transition to Individual Electoral Registration (IER) in 2014, central Government has provided annual direct funding to local authorities to cover the additional costs of IER compared to the previous household system.</p><p>Since 2015/16, five years of annual funding has been provided by Cabinet Office to cover these additional costs, totalling £96M to date. It is expected that planned reform of the annual canvass of electors will significantly reduce the overall cost of registration. The Government is not therefore minded to make an assessment of the potential merits of ring-fencing IER grant funding.</p><p>Electoral Registration Officers are responsible for delivering electoral registration services and securing funding from the local authorities that appoint them. It is for local authorities to decide how they allocate their budgets.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 25/07/2019 15:25:14 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1140964

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	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, if he will make it his policy to collate information on the (a) amount spent by local authorities on electoral registration, (b) number of staff employed by local authorities on electoral registration and (c) local authorities with the (i) highest and (ii) lowest levels of electoral registration.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	280151
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government maintains an estimate of the annual cost of electoral registration. This is supported by cost data from Electoral Registration Officers and volume data provided by electoral management systems and other sources of information.</p><p>The Government recognises that Electoral Registration Officers within local authorities are best placed to make decisions on how best to target their work to ensure their electoral registers are complete and accurate. We welcome the sharing of best practice between local authorities on increasing levels of registration. The Electoral Commission provides guidance for EROs and sets and monitors their performance against standards under their Performance Standards Framework, details of which can be found on the EC’s website https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 25/07/2019 15:25:00 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1141263

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) central Government and (b) local government databases electoral registration officers may use in undertaking their registration functions.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	280934
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>Regulation 23 of the Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001 and the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001 gives Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) wide-ranging powers to request whatever information and data they require for the purposes of maintaining the electoral registers. EROs are therefore entitled to request datasets from organisations which would help them undertake their registration functions.</p><p>Online applications via the Register to Vote website are verified via the Individual Electoral Registration Digital Service (IER DS) using Department for Work and Pensions data. EROs also use local government data in carrying out their registration duties. Commonly used datasets include council tax, housing and housing benefit data, adult social care data, and school admissions data.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 280940 question first answered 26/07/2019 13:05:16 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1141300

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	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: Databases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) national and (b) local authority databases may be inspected by electoral registration officers.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	280940
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>Regulation 23 of the Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001 and the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 2001 gives Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) wide-ranging powers to request whatever information and data they require for the purposes of maintaining the electoral registers. EROs are therefore entitled to request datasets from organisations which would help them undertake their registration functions.</p><p>Online applications via the Register to Vote website are verified via the Individual Electoral Registration Digital Service (IER DS) using Department for Work and Pensions data. EROs also use local government data in carrying out their registration duties. Commonly used datasets include council tax, housing and housing benefit data, adult social care data, and school admissions data.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 280934 question first answered 26/07/2019 13:05:16 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1141267

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	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: Local Government Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what additional central Government funding was made available to electoral registration officers for electoral registration in each of the last five years; and which local authorities were successful in bidding for that funding.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	280938
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>Since 2015, Cabinet Office has provided five years of annual grant funding to Electoral Registration Officers in England, Scotland and Wales to cover the additional cost that Individual Electoral Registration (IER) introduced to the registration system.</p><p>Initial in-year allocations are paid to all local authorities in England and Wales, and valuation joint boards in Scotland as early in the financial year as possible. If local authorities/valuation joint boards require further additional funding, they are required to submit a justification led bid (JLB) towards the end of the financial year. <br>Since 2015, the Cabinet Office has provided £96M to cover these additional costs</p><p>● 15/16, £27M<br>● 16/17, £21M<br>● 17/18, £18M<br>● 18/19, £16M<br>● 19/20, £14M (initial allocations announced and payments being processed – does not include JLB funding.)<br>Since 2015/16, 50% of the Local Authorities and Valuation Joint Boards have received additional JLB funding on top of the initial allocation in at least one of the years of funding.</p><p>It is anticipated that plans to reform the annual canvass of electors will significantly reduce the overall cost of electoral registration and place electoral registration services on a more sustainable footing.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 26/07/2019 13:06:09 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1141074

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Local Government: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of people employed by local authorities in England in (a) 2010 and (b) 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	280165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 280166 question first answered 25/07/2019 10:38:20 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden attachment 1 file name Combined PQ280165 and 280166.pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1141260

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	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 his most recent estimate is of the electoral registration rate for each region of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	280931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not hold this information. Registration statistics, including a breakdown of the numbers of people registered in each UK region, are available from the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) website: www.ons.gov.uk <br> <br>Estimates of the completeness and accuracy – including those for regions across the UK – are published by the Electoral Commission. The latest report on register completeness and accuracy was produced by the Electoral Commission in 2016 and is available online: www.electoralcommission.org.uk.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 26/07/2019 13:05:00 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane