Question

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will place a report in the Library every week of what proportion of the Spring 2014 electorate have been successfully datamatched for the transition to the Individual Electoral Register using (a) the DWP CIS database and (b) additional datamatching employed by local authorities in each local authority.

The results of the nationwide test of datamatching between government records and electoral registers is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evaluation-confirming-electors-through-data-matching

An evaluation report on the datamatching taking place this summer is due to be published in late autumn.