Electoral Register

(asked on 24th February 2015) - View Source

Question

To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, whether the Electoral Commission has sufficient data to recommend whether the end of the transition to individual electoral registration should be brought forward to December 2015.


Answered by
Gary Streeter Portrait
Gary Streeter
This question was answered on 3rd March 2015

The Electoral Commission informs me that it will be collecting data from Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) on the registers in force for the May 2015 elections. The Electoral Commission is working with Cabinet Office, electoral management software suppliers and EROs to improve the reliability of this data.

The data, in addition to information already collected, will inform the Commission’s June 2015 assessment on whether the end of the transition to individual electoral registration can be brought forward to December 2015.

The Commission’s February 2015 report states that without reliable data it is unlikely that the Commission would be able to recommend in any circumstances that the end of the transition to individual electoral registration should be brought forward to December 2015.

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