Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of people aged 25 and under who appeared on the electoral roll in each of the last 10 years.

Annual data on the proportion of people under 25 registered to vote is not available. The Electoral Commission carries out periodic assessments of the completeness and accuracy of the electoral register. The most recent assessment from July 2014, which includes data on young people, is available at the following link:

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/our-work/our-research/electoral-registration-research

More than 2.3 million young people aged 16 to 24 have applied to register to vote since June 2014 with over 1.9 million of these applications made online.