Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions his Department has had with other Government Departments on the potential use of automatic voter registration.

I refer you to the answers previously given to the Members for Oldham West and Royton and Linlithgow and East Falkirk, PQ1118 answered on 3^rd July 2017. There are no plans to introduce automatic registration, as it contradicts the principles underpinning Individual Electoral Registration. Making an application to register to vote is the right of individuals and can be done easily online, in as little as three minutes, as well as using the traditional paper form, if people prefer. The 2017 UK parliamentary general election was fought on the largest ever register, according to initial estimates.