Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of replacing ERO electoral registers with a single national electoral register.

The Government has no plans to introduce a new nation-wide database for the purposes of electoral registration. The introduction of such a database would raise a number of significant technical and practical issues, as well as security and privacy concerns.

The Cabinet Office is currently considering ways to modernise and streamline the existing registration system to ensure it is responsive to the needs of electoral administrators and citizens alike. This includes making the system of electoral registration even more convenient, accessible and user-friendly, as well as more efficient by developing more cost effective approaches to maintaining the completeness and accuracy of their registers.