Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the (a) number and (b) proportion of people who have tried and failed to register to vote in each of the last ten years.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government does not collect nor hold data on the outcomes of electoral registration applications.

Electoral registration is administered locally by Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) who are statutorily responsible for the maintenance of the Parliamentary and Local registers for the area for which they act. The duty of determining applications to register to vote therefore falls to them.