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Cabinet Office does not hold information on the number of non-UK EU citizens, resident in
the UK, who do or do not register to vote in European Parliamentary elections<\/p>
Estimates of the number of eligible people on the registers for electoral events are
published by the Electoral Commission following each poll, but have not previously
included a breakdown of the numbers of EU citizens eligible to vote. These reports are
available online at: www.electoralcommission.org.uk.<\/p>
Each Electoral Registration Officer maintains a register for their own local area. Some
headline registration statistics by area are collated and published annually by the Office for
National Statistics, however, this does not include a breakdown of the numbers of EU
citizens registered to vote. The total number of UK local government electors \u2013 which
includes EU citizens \u2013 in the year to December 2018 was 47.8 million<\/p>
The latest bulletin is available at:
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/elections/electoralregistration.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of non-UK EU citizens living in the UK who were unable to register to vote in the European parliamentary elections in (a) Slough (b) the UK.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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Under EU law, EU citizens living in another Member State are able to vote in their State of residence in European Parliamentary elections. Member States will, therefore, arrange for EU nationals to register to vote in their State of residence for these elections. Member States in advance of an upcoming European Parliamentary poll will exchange with each other data on EU nationals who have chosen to register to vote in another Member State. This is intended to identify and avoid double voting at European elections.<\/p>
<\/p>
In the UK, the UC1 form implements this requirement under EU law. EU Council Directive 93/109/EC requires all Member States to send the details of any EU citizens\u2019 declarations to the state they are a citizen of, \u201csufficiently in advance of polling day\u201d to ensure an EU citizen does not vote twice in the same European Parliamentary election. This is not a new requirement and has been in place for previous European Parliamentary elections. A similar provision applies to UK citizens living in the other EU Member States.<\/p>
<\/p>
The UK Government receives data about UK citizens from the other Member States via a secure online portal managed by the European Commission. Data that can be matched to a local authority is then shared with the relevant local authority via encrypted file transfers. Electoral Registration Officers are responsible for sending the data in respect of EU nationals in the UK to the relevant Member States; the Cabinet Office does not see this data. The requested figures are attached in a deposited paper.<\/p>
<\/p>
In practice, we have found that the Commission\u2019s voter information exchange process is of poor quality, as Member States record different information in respect of persons registering to vote and this may not be sufficient for other States to identify them.<\/p>
<\/p>
For the avoidance of doubt, this does not hinder the ability of the citizen to register to vote, nor indeed, to vote legally in elections.<\/p>
<\/p>
Rather, this is a deficiency in the European Commission\u2019s mechanism to identify double voting. Notwithstanding, it is a criminal offence to vote twice in such elections, and information on voting participation will be recorded in marked registers.<\/p>
<\/p> <\/strong><\/p> <\/p> The requested figures for the European Parliamentary elections in 2014 and 2019 are as follows:<\/p> <\/p> Belgium<\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td><\/tr> <\/p><\/td> Usable Records Received<\/p><\/td> Records Sent to Member State<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2014<\/p><\/td> 1<\/p><\/td> 1,699<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2019<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> Not available yet*<\/p><\/td><\/tr> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td><\/tr> Germany<\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td><\/tr> <\/p><\/td> Usable Records Received<\/p><\/td> Records Sent to Member State<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2014<\/p><\/td> 28<\/p><\/td> 13,101<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2019<\/p><\/td> 18<\/p><\/td> Not available yet*<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> *The figures for the 2019 European Parliamentary elections are not currently available.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the statement by Lord Young of Cookham on 5 June (HL Deb, cols 110\u201314), how many European Parliament Voter Registration (UC1) forms they received from the government of Belgium in respect of UK citizens, resident in Belgium, who had declared their intention to vote in the European Parliament elections in (1) 2014, and (2) 2019, in Belgium under the terms of EU Council Directive 93/109/EC; where those forms were received; how they distributed those forms to the respective UK constituencies; and how many such forms they sent to the government of Belgium in respect of EU citizens, resident in the UK, who had declared their intention to vote in the European Parliament elections in (a) 2014, and (b) 2019, in the UK.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1130591/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Under EU law, EU citizens living in another Member State are able to vote in their State of residence in European Parliamentary elections. Member States will, therefore, arrange for EU nationals to register to vote in their State of residence for these elections. Member States in advance of an upcoming European Parliamentary poll will exchange with each other data on EU nationals who have chosen to register to vote in another Member State. This is intended to identify and avoid double voting at European elections.<\/p> <\/p> In the UK, the UC1 form implements this requirement under EU law. EU Council Directive 93/109/EC requires all Member States to send the details of any EU citizens\u2019 declarations to the state they are a citizen of, \u201csufficiently in advance of polling day\u201d to ensure an EU citizen does not vote twice in the same European Parliamentary election. This is not a new requirement and has been in place for previous European Parliamentary elections. A similar provision applies to UK citizens living in the other EU Member States.<\/p> <\/p> The UK Government receives data about UK citizens from the other Member States via a secure online portal managed by the European Commission. Data that can be matched to a local authority is then shared with the relevant local authority via encrypted file transfers. Electoral Registration Officers are responsible for sending the data in respect of EU nationals in the UK to the relevant Member States; the Cabinet Office does not see this data. The requested figures are attached in a deposited paper.<\/p> <\/p> In practice, we have found that the Commission\u2019s voter information exchange process is of poor quality, as Member States record different information in respect of persons registering to vote and this may not be sufficient for other States to identify them.<\/p> <\/p> For the avoidance of doubt, this does not hinder the ability of the citizen to register to vote, nor indeed, to vote legally in elections.<\/p> <\/p> Rather, this is a deficiency in the European Commission\u2019s mechanism to identify double voting. Notwithstanding, it is a criminal offence to vote twice in such elections, and information on voting participation will be recorded in marked registers.<\/p> <\/p> <\/strong><\/p> <\/p> The requested figures for the European Parliamentary elections in 2014 and 2019 are as follows:<\/p> <\/p> Belgium<\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td><\/tr> <\/p><\/td> Usable Records Received<\/p><\/td> Records Sent to Member State<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2014<\/p><\/td> 1<\/p><\/td> 1,699<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2019<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> Not available yet*<\/p><\/td><\/tr> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td><\/tr> Germany<\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td><\/tr> <\/p><\/td> Usable Records Received<\/p><\/td> Records Sent to Member State<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2014<\/p><\/td> 28<\/p><\/td> 13,101<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2019<\/p><\/td> 18<\/p><\/td> Not available yet*<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> *The figures for the 2019 European Parliamentary elections are not currently available.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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