The majority of electoral registration activity is funded by local authorities across England,
Scotland and Wales. Since 2014 the Cabinet Office has provided funding to LAs to cover
the additional costs generated by the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration,
including a second bidding round after the canvass if initial funding is insufficient to cover
costs incurred over the year.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for electoral registration officers.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mr Jim Cunningham"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/732704/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The Government is currently considering its response to both the Electoral Commission report on campaign spending and to the Lord Hodgson Review into third party campaigning.<\/p>
<\/p>
Online political campaign advertising is regulated by the Political Parties, Election and Referendums Act 2000, in the same way as offline political campaign advertising.<\/p>
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The most recent formal assessment of register quality, based on the 1 December 2015 registers
and published in July 2016, found that individual electoral registration boosted the accuracy of the
register by 4 per cent<\/p>
Alongside individual registration, the successful introduction of online registration has transformed
the way citizens can register. It now takes just a few minutes to apply to register and nearly 30
million citizens have taken the opportunity to do so in the last three years. In large part thanks to
online registration, the parliamentary register used for the 2017 general election was the largest
ever at nearly 47 million<\/p>
2.9 million applications were submitted between the calling of the election and the registration
deadline date, with 622,000 applications coming on deadline day itself<\/p>
The government has continued to modernise the registration process and to make it more
accessible, as underscored, for example by recent policy commitments on making it easier for
survivors of domestic abuse to register anonymously.<\/p>"}
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The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4021", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Chris Skidmore"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Kingswood"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Chris Skidmore"} , "attachment" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/732697/answer/attachment/1", "fileName" : {"_value" : "PQ1019 v.02 (1).pdf"} , "title" : "UKSA Response to PQ1019"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2017-06-29", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2017-06-29T15:00:30.417Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "53"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Cabinet Office"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Cabinet Office"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2017-06-26", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Zero-hours Contracts: St Helens North"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in St Helens North constituency are employed on zero-hours contracts; and how many of those people are (a) aged between 16 and 24 and (b) women.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4458", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Conor McGinn"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "St Helens North"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Conor McGinn"} ], "uin" : "1019"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/759608", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Cabinet Office"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/759608/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Guidance on the roles and responsibilities of tellers is already produced by the Electoral
Commission. Tellers must also act in accordance with any further guidance provided by
the relevant Returning Officer or their staff. There are currently no plans to put such
guidance on a statutory footing.<\/p>"}
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Electoral Returning Officers (EROs) already have wide powers to access data to improve
the quality of the register. The Cabinet Office is working with administrators and their
representatives and the Electoral Commission to investigate additional potential use of
data to aid EROs in their registration duties.<\/p>"}
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The Government intends to publish a democratic engagement strategy addressing
registration issues in late 2017.<\/p>"}
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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>
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Sir Eric Pickles\u2019 review of Electoral Fraud, published in August 2016, recommended
introducing an attestation requirement for postal vote applications requiring a signature
waiver<\/p>
The Government supports this recommendation and will be seeking to consider, in
conjunction with the Association of Electoral Administrators and the Electoral Commission,
how this might be implemented in due course.<\/p>"}
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We consider elections processes and policy on an ongoing basis, and are working with the
Association of Electoral Administrators and Electoral Commission to consider the
development and improvement of existing processes, including in relation to the
procedures for the counting of votes at elections.<\/p>"}
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