Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to improve the accuracy and completeness of the United Kingdom electoral register.

On 16 July the Government announced as part of its decision to end the transition to IER in December 2015 that up to £3 million additional funding is being made available to Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) in Great Britain to undertake extra registration activities to target the remaining carry forward electors on registers that are not individually registered.

This funding can be used by EROs to complement their annual canvass activities as they work to improve the completeness and accuracy of electoral registers ahead of December.

Over £14 million funding has been invested over the last two financial years to support the costs of activities to boost levels of voter registration in Great Britain. This included almost £10 million ahead of the elections on 7 May.