Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2016 to Question 23088, on electoral register: costs, what the £23 million not shared between all EROs in Great Britain was spent on.
Answered by John Penrose
The remaining £23 million was for developing and maintaining the online registration service, electoral management software costs, payments to civil society organisations to help boost voter registration levels and staffing and related costs.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has made an assessment of the average cost of a working peer which includes expenses, salary, necessary equipment and office space.
Answered by John Penrose
The department has made no such assessment. The costs to which the hon. member refers are a matter for the House of Lords.
Details of the House of Lords business plans, annual reports and accounts, and financial support for members can be found on the parliament.uk website.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
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.
Answered by John Penrose
The Electoral Commission is expected to publish its assessment of the completeness and accuracy of the first full electoral registers under IER this summer. We expect this will provide a breakdown for England, Scotland and Wales but not for each local authority.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department has collected from electoral registration officers on the number of names removed from electoral registers in each local authority for each permissible reason in each of the last five years.
Answered by John Penrose
The Electoral Commission recently published its report on the state of the December 2015 electoral registers. It is available here: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/197516/IER-Assessment-December-2015-registers.pdf
The report uses the best data available and outlines the changes to the register, including deletions, between December 2014 and December 2015 and the reasons for those changes. The report also explains that the data collection was a joint exercise between the Electoral Commission, the Cabinet Office, Electoral Registration Officers and electoral management software suppliers.
Previous reports for additional years, when the Cabinet Office was not involved in data collection, can be accessed here: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/performance-standards/performance-in-running-electoral-registration.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of people removed from the electoral register since December 2015 are (a) men and (b) women.
Answered by John Penrose
The electoral registers used for the 2015 General Election contained over 400,000 more entries than the last registers published prior to the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration (IER). As such, suggestions that IER would lead to a decline in registration levels were simply incorrect.
While data is not available on the number of non-IER registered electors who voted at the 2015 General Election, the Electoral Commission found 96% of the entries on the electoral register in May 2015 were already registered under IER.
The Electoral Commission is planning to publish a report in February/March 2016 on the state of the December 2015 registers. This is expected to include data on the number of register entries and on the number of remaining non-IER registered entries removed in December.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people who voted in the 2015 General Election are not on the latest electoral register.
Answered by John Penrose
The electoral registers used for the 2015 General Election contained over 400,000 more entries than the last registers published prior to the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration (IER). As such, suggestions that IER would lead to a decline in registration levels were simply incorrect.
While data is not available on the number of non-IER registered electors who voted at the 2015 General Election, the Electoral Commission found 96% of the entries on the electoral register in May 2015 were already registered under IER.
The Electoral Commission is planning to publish a report in February/March 2016 on the state of the December 2015 registers. This is expected to include data on the number of register entries and on the number of remaining non-IER registered entries removed in December.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total cost is of the transfer to Individual Electoral Registration; and what proportion of such costs have been borne by local government.
Answered by John Penrose
In financial years 2013/14 and 2014/15 the Government has spent £72 million in the transition to Individual Electoral Registration (IER).
Of this, over £49 million was shared between all EROs in Great Britain, ensuring the transition to IER was fully funded. This included over £10 million that was allocated to local authorities specifically to boost levels of voter registration.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many young people earn below the living wage.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many young people in full-time employment earn below the living wage.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what change there has been in median gross weekly pay for (a) men and (b) women in Ashfield constituency in each year since 2010.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.