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Oral Answers to Questions

David Evennett Excerpts
Tuesday 24th May 2011

(13 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Evennett Portrait Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford) (Con)
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What steps is my right hon. Friend taking to review the effectiveness of the current methods of electoral registration, and to assist all councils to maximise the number of people on the electoral register?

Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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We are planning to legislate to introduce individual electoral registration, which of course is intended principally to deal with cases of electoral fraud. At the same time, we hope to pilot in the coming months new schemes to compare the electoral register with other publicly available databases, so that electoral registration officers can go out to communities in which they are active and ensure that if people are missing on one database, they can be included in the other.