Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2017 to Question 66275, on electoral register: disability, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that accessible information on the forthcoming local and mayoral elections is made available for people with a learning disability.

The responsibility to provide information to electors on local and national elections rests with the Electoral Commission and Returning Officers. For previous polls the Royal Mencap Society and the Electoral Commission produced easy read guidance to help people with a learning disability to register and to vote which the Cabinet office funded with a grant of £58,734. For the forthcoming local and mayoral elections the law provides that Returning Officers make relevant information available in accessible formats and we have been working with the Electoral Commission, the Association of Electoral Administration and representative organisations like Mencap to promote provision of such materials.