Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what lessons the Government has learned about voter registration from the EU referendum campaign.

The EU Referendum campaign was the largest democratic exercise the United Kingdom has ever witnessed. Indeed, there were 46.5 million people on the electoral register for the EU Referendum, the largest UK Parliamentary register ever seen. Building on this success, the Government is currently undertaking a programme of work looking at how the electoral registration can be made more efficient and boost the levels of registration further. This includes piloting changes to the annual canvass to test new approaches which have been identified through working closely with Electoral Registration Officers.