Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to encourage sixth form and technical colleges to contact electoral offices to provide registration days and ID provision before any future elections.

Although registration initiatives in Northern Ireland are an operational matter for the Chief Electoral Officer, the Government fully supports initiatives to encourage registration among young people. The Electoral Office for Northern Ireland continues to implement its Schools Programme which registers students in school sixth forms and also continues to engage with further education colleges across Northern Ireland in relation to holding registration clinics.

The Electoral Office for Northern Ireland also routinely receives information from further education colleges across Northern Ireland and this information is used to write to all college students not already registered to encourage registration.