Phil Wilson
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(12 years, 7 months ago)
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The Deputy Prime Minister
One of the virtues of individual voter registration—the reason, I assume, why the previous Government were keen to introduce it as well—is precisely that there will be an individual responsibility on voters in the future, including students, to make sure that they are properly registered. As long as we make sure that there is still, as I said there will be, face-to-face household canvassing, there is no reason why this experiment and this introduction of individual voter registration should not lead to an increase in the registration of students.
Phil Wilson (Sedgefield) (Lab)
How did the Government make the calculation that the new police commissioners should earn £120,000 a year?
The Deputy Prime Minister
Police commissioners’ pay is still to be finalised, but the key thing is that the elections, which will be held next autumn, will give people a real sense of accountability over policing in their local areas.