Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the increase in level of capacity of the Register to Vote website was between June 2016 and the end of December 2017.

Enhancements to the Register to Vote digital service were completed in December 2016, taking full account of the independent lessons learned review from the website outage that occurred in June 2016. The changes included a significant increase in user capacity. Specific user capacity figures cannot be shared for security reasons.

Over 2.9 million applications were submitted between 18 April and 22 May 2017, including a record number of 622,000 applications on the deadline date.