Question

To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, if the Electoral Commission will revise its Key Success Measures, Target Performance for completeness of register from 'completeness does not deteriorate' to a policy of 'increasing completion rates year on year'.

The Commission's key success measures are included in its Corporate Plan which is updated and presented to the Speaker's Committee for approval on an annual basis. The next opportunity to update the Corporate Plan will be when the 2015-16 to 2019-20 plan is presented to the Speaker's Committee in spring 2015 and the Commission will be reviewing the key success measures in preparation for this plan in autumn 2014.