UK Membership of EU: Referendums

(asked on 9th March 2016) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that UK expatriates living in EU countries are informed of their eligibility to vote in the EU referendum.


Answered by
David Lidington Portrait
David Lidington
This question was answered on 17th March 2016

The Government is committed to ensuring as many eligible people are registered to vote ahead of the EU Referendum as possible. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office overseas network supported the Electoral Commission's Overseas Voter Registration Day last month - a global campaign to promote voter registration to British citizens abroad by raising awareness amongst overseas voters of their rights to vote through providing information on embassy websites and other activities.

I also spoke about voter registration to the English language media in Portugal during my visit to Lisbon on 9 March.

The Electoral Commission is organising its own campaign to increase voter registration.

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