Question

To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, with reference to the Answer of 2 April 2014, Official Report, column 681W, on electoral register, how many students were registered to vote as a result of the cross-referencing of data from the Student Loans Company in the data matching pilots.

The Commission informs me that in total, across the two separate pilot schemes which the Commission evaluated, 37 new electors were added to the registers, as a result of Student Loans Company data, in the particular areas undertaking the data mining pilots.