Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department has collected from electoral registration officers on the number of names removed from electoral registers in each local authority for each permissible reason in each of the last five years.
The Electoral Commission recently published its report on the state of the December 2015 electoral registers. It is available here: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/197516/IER-Assessment-December-2015-registers.pdf
The report uses the best data available and outlines the changes to the register, including deletions, between December 2014 and December 2015 and the reasons for those changes. The report also explains that the data collection was a joint exercise between the Electoral Commission, the Cabinet Office, Electoral Registration Officers and electoral management software suppliers.
Previous reports for additional years, when the Cabinet Office was not involved in data collection, can be accessed here: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/performance-standards/performance-in-running-electoral-registration.