https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/our-work/our-research/research-report-library#registration<\/a>.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to investigate the reasons for changes in the level of electoral registration in each local authority in each of the last three years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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The total cost of the Electoral Registration Transformation Programme, which introduced Individual Electoral Registration (IER) in 2014, was £116.2 million. Funding for the Programme was provided by central Government. The figure includes the cost of funding provided by central Government to local authorities to cover the additional costs associated with IER compared to the previous household system. The figure also includes the costs of establishing the IER digital service and certain voter registration activities.<\/p>
Since the transition to IER, central Government has continued to provide direct funding to local authorities to cover the additional costs of IER compared to the previous household system.<\/p>"}
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The Government is working closely with the Welsh and Scottish Governments on elections and registration issues. We are also working closely with the Northern Ireland Office and the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland, for example, on the imminent introduction of online registration.<\/p>"}
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The Government has no current plans to pilot polling day voter registration. The current system strikes an appropriate balance between ensuring eligible citizens can register close to an election and allowing electoral administrators to finalise registers allowing for the effective conduct of polls.<\/p>"}
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The Government is committed to building a fair, secure and inclusive democracy that works for everyone. The December 2017 Democratic Engagement Plan sets out our plans for doing this. We expect action under the Plan to benefit members of Commonwealth communities in the UK, alongside a wide range of other groups of eligible citizens.<\/p>
At the same time, Electoral Registration Officers have a duty to maintain a complete and accurate register. They share responsibility for engaging citizens with electoral registration with the Electoral Commission, which has a statutory duty to promote public awareness<\/p>"}
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The Government has not made a comparative assessment of other countries\u2019 electoral registers. We have no plans to introduce a centralised, national electoral register in the UK.<\/p>"}
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Although it continues to play an important role in helping to maintain register accuracy and completeness, alongside online registration, the current one-size-fits-all annual canvass process is widely recognised as being burdensome and inefficient. The Government intends to implement changes to this process that will make the canvass easier for citizens and administrators and improve overall efficiency considerably.<\/p>
<\/p>
In 2016 and 2017 we delivered a range of pilots that have tested alternatives to the current process. The evidence from these pilots is currently being analysed and we expect to publish findings later this month. We are currently working in close partnership with the Electoral Commission, the Association of Electoral Administrators, the Scottish Assessors Association and electoral administrators to discuss what improvements to the canvass process could be made, based on the evidence from the pilots. We are engaging directly with the devolved administrations in this work. We intend to consult on proposals later this year.<\/p>
More widely, since the transition to Individual Electoral Registration and the introduction of online registration, we have delivered a number of reforms, again in partnership with the wider electoral community. This has included making a number of changes to the law (for example to allow Invitations to Register to be sent by e-mail) as well as non-legislative improvements such as continual improvement of the online platform (both the citizen interface and behind-the-scenes). In addition, in December 2017 the Government published the first ever Democratic Engagement Plan.<\/p>"}
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