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	date	01/05/2019
	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
	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 assessment the Commission has made of the effect on trends in the level of voter registration of information sharing between Government and local authorities.
	tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
	tabling member printed	Nick Smith
	uin	250031
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2019 answer text <p>In 2011 and 2012, the Electoral Commission carried out an evaluation of the Government’s pilots to test the extent to which data held on national public databases could assist Electoral Registration Officers in maintaining their electoral registers. Its evaluations found that the principle of sharing data had potential but that the approach, as piloted, was not effective.</p><p>The Commission has recently undertaken feasibility studies examining how publicly-held data could be used to improve registration. The findings will be published in the summer.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 08/05/2019 16:52:05 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
	tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

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	registered interest
	date	14/03/2014
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electorial 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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the electoral registration figures were in each ward in the recent confirmation dry run conducted in Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council.
	tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
	tabling member printed	Nick Smith
	uin	192220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that the confirmation dry run involved matching all entries on the electoral registers against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System database. Entries would be marked as green if they matched with DWP, amber if they were a partial match or red if there was no match.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Results for all wards are available on the Commission's website here: <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0003/163146/Confirmation-dry-run-2013-Results-Wards.xls" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0003/163146/Confirmation-dry-run-2013-Results-Wards.xls</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The ward results for Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council were as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Ward</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Green matches</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amber matches</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Red matches</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ABERTILLERY</p></td><td><p>82.4%</p></td><td><p>3.0%</p></td><td><p>14.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BADMINTON</p></td><td><p>87.9%</p></td><td><p>1.4%</p></td><td><p>10.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BEAUFORT</p></td><td><p>86.1%</p></td><td><p>1.6%</p></td><td><p>12.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BLAINA</p></td><td><p>83.0%</p></td><td><p>2.3%</p></td><td><p>14.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BRYNMAWR</p></td><td><p>82.1%</p></td><td><p>2.3%</p></td><td><p>15.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CWM</p></td><td><p>85.4%</p></td><td><p>1.6%</p></td><td><p>13.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CWMTILLERY</p></td><td><p>84.9%</p></td><td><p>1.9%</p></td><td><p>13.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EBBW VALE NORTH</p></td><td><p>85.1%</p></td><td><p>1.8%</p></td><td><p>13.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EBBW VALE SOUTH</p></td><td><p>81.2%</p></td><td><p>2.0%</p></td><td><p>16.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GEORGETOWN</p></td><td><p>85.4%</p></td><td><p>1.0%</p></td><td><p>13.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LLANHILLETH</p></td><td><p>82.8%</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td><td><p>15.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NANTYGLO</p></td><td><p>83.3%</p></td><td><p>2.6%</p></td><td><p>14.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RASSAU</p></td><td><p>86.7%</p></td><td><p>1.7%</p></td><td><p>11.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SIRHOWY</p></td><td><p>85.3%</p></td><td><p>1.7%</p></td><td><p>13.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SIX BELLS</p></td><td><p>82.8%</p></td><td><p>2.6%</p></td><td><p>14.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TREDEGAR CENTRAL &amp; WEST</p></td><td><p>84.0%</p></td><td><p>1.9%</p></td><td><p>14.1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith