Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have registered to vote in the UK since 23 June 2016.

The Government holds figures for the number of applications to register, but not for the number of additions or deletions from each local register resulting from such applications. This data is only held by Electoral Registration Officers.

Since 23 June 2016, 783,834 applications to register have been made. Of these, 642,701 applications were made online, through the Government’s Register to Vote (RTV) website. The remainder - 127,232 applications - were submitted on paper.

A breakdown of these applications by type (e.g. home movers, name changes, corrections or first-time applications) is not possible. It can be assumed that the vast majority of these applications relate to general churn in the system, with the annual canvass now well underway.”

These figures will include re-registrations from people moving house, as part of the normal churn of electoral registration over time.