Question

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, If he will implement an initiative similar to that in Northern Ireland for registering young voters through schools throughout the UK.

The Government has learnt from the implementation of individual voter registration in Northern Ireland. As such we have, for example, retained the safeguard of the annual canvas and provided funding to maximise registration rates across Great Britain.

The Government has no plans to require Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) in Britain to visit schools. EROs in Great Britain are already free to visit schools and further education colleagues in their area to promote registration, and many of them do.