Asked by: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Stepney)
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.
Answered by John Penrose
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.
Asked by: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Stepney)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what support his Department is providing (a) universities and (b) schools and colleges to ensure students are signed on to the electoral register following the introduction of Individual Voter Registration.
Answered by John Penrose
Online registration has made registering to vote quicker and more convenient for the majority of electors, including young people. Ahead of the elections on 7 May, £530,000 was allocated to organisations that work to encourage student electoral registration, including £380,000 to the National Union of Students. Universities and local authorities continue to work closely together through the Student Forum, established by the Cabinet Office. A number of learning resources promoting electoral registration in schools have also been developed in partnership with youth organisations. In addition, there are interesting pilots of the new system to improve student voter registration at Sheffield University and elsewhere, which we are studying carefully.
Asked by: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Stepney)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2015 to Question 222628, when he expects to be able to release data on unemployment figures for December 2014.
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: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Stepney)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2015 to Question 221825, what estimate his Department has made of the number and proportion of people aged 16 to 18 who have had an unknown educational status in London in each of the last five years.
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: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Stepney)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many young people aged between 18 and 24 have been unemployed for longer than (a) 6 months, (b) 12 months and (c) 2 years in (i) Tower Hamlets, (ii) London and (iii) the UK in each of the last five years.
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: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Stepney)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of young people aged 16 to 18 living in (a) Bethnal Green and Bow constituency and (b) England had a working or educational status classified as unknown 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.
Asked by: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Stepney)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the average earnings of people aged (a) 16 to 18 and (b) 19 to 24 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.