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Debate between Julie Elliott and Gerald Jones(8 years, 11 months ago)
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Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central) (Lab)
1. If he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the transition to individual electoral registration.
Gerald Jones (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) (Lab)
7. If he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the transition to individual electoral registration.
The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office (John Penrose)
The Electoral Commission will publish its assessment of the first full registers under individual electoral registration next spring. In the meantime, I am delighted to inform the House that the transition to IER is now complete. Ghost entries of people who have died or moved house have been removed. We now have a register that is clean, more accurate and less vulnerable to fraud than ever before. This is a vital foundation stone as we move on to the next big challenge: finding people who are legally entitled to vote, but have never been on the register, such as expats, students and people in private rented accommodation, and persuading them to sign up.