Question
To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, which local authorities have failed standard 3 door-to-door canvassing more than once and (a) have and (b) have not applied for additional central government funding for electoral registration.
The Electoral Commission informs me that the Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) for the authorities set out in the table below have not met standard 3 in more than one year:
Brentwood |
Broxbourne |
Castle Point |
East Devon |
East Dorset |
East Hampshire |
East Hertfordshire |
Epping Forest |
Great Yarmouth |
Gwynedd |
Hyndburn |
Lancaster |
Maldon |
Merthyr Tydfil |
Mid Devon |
Mid Sussex |
North Devon |
North Dorset |
North Lanarkshire |
North Warwickshire |
Powys |
Rhondda, Cynon, Taff |
Sedgemoor |
Solihull |
South Lanarkshire |
Taunton Deane |
The Vale of Glamorgan |
Torridge |
Uttlesford |
Warwick |
West Devon |
West Oxfordshire |
West Somerset |
The Electoral Commission informs me that it does not hold information on applications made for central government funding for electoral registration. The Cabinet Office is responsible for managing this process.