Asked by: Chris Green (Conservative - Bolton West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of the working population of Bolton West constituency is employed in the (a) public and (b) private sector.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I
have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Chris Green (Conservative - Bolton West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which local authorities have expressed interest to his Department in conducting a voter ID pilot in polling stations for the May 2018 local elections.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The May 2018 voter ID pilot schemes are part of a programme of reform that will enhance
public confidence in our elections and strengthen electoral integrity. The opportunity to
pilot voter ID in May 2018 was offered to all local authorities in Great Britain and on 16
September we announced that Woking, Gosport, Bromley and Watford have committed to
do so. In addition, Tower Hamlets will be piloting measures to improve the integrity of the
postal vote process.
Asked by: Chris Green (Conservative - Bolton West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government has taken to implement the recommendations of Sir Eric Pickles' review of electoral fraud entitled Securing the ballot, not including the voter ID pilots planned for the May 2018 local elections.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The Government’s view is that electoral fraud is unacceptable on any level. Sir Eric Pickles’ review made a number of recommendations for strengthening the integrity of the electoral process. In addition to the voter ID pilots taking place in the May 2018 elections, Tower Hamlets will also pilot changes to postal voting. The Government is also seeking to end the practice of postal vote harvesting through measures that will prohibit party campaigners from handling postal votes, and apply a limit to the number of postal ballots that any one individual can hand in at a polling station. Additionally, the Electoral Commission has addressed 7 recommendations through guidance in response to the Pickles Review.
The Government is considering the way forward on the other recommendations made by Sir Eric Pickles, and will continue to consider how to improve the integrity of electoral processes more generally.
Asked by: Chris Green (Conservative - Bolton West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many young people in (a) Bolton borough and (b) Wigan borough have taken part in the National Citizen Service.
Answered by Rob Wilson
National Citizen Service is the fastest growing youth programme for a century and over 200,000 young people across the UK have already taken part in this life changing opportunity. I am pleased to report that in the local authority areas of Bolton and Wigan, 1,962 and 676 young people have taken part respectively. NCS data is not held on constituency basis.
Asked by: Chris Green (Conservative - Bolton West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many young people have taken part in the National Citizen Service in Bolton West constituency.
Answered by Rob Wilson
National Citizen Service is the fastest growing youth programme for a century and over 200,000 young people across the UK have already taken part in this life changing opportunity. I am pleased to report that in the local authority areas of Bolton and Wigan, 1,962 and 676 young people have taken part respectively. NCS data is not held on constituency basis.