Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Meg Hillier and Chloe Smith

Tuesday 26th March 2013 Commons Chamber

[Miss Smith]

We are already doing that. Work has been undertaken with the National Union of Students. I welcome the hon. Gentleman’s enthusiasm for that campaign. I also note that one of the points of the programme is to encourage individual registration, and I hope that many students—highly educated as they are, after all—would recognise the benefits of doing so.

[Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch) (Lab/Co-op)]

Will the Minister update us on the administrative need to provide one’s national insurance number on registration and say whether she has modelled the impact of this on take-up?