Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Oliver Letwin and Jeremy Quin

Wednesday 9th December 2015 Commons Chamber

[Jeremy Quin (Horsham) (Con)]

T3. What plans does the Minister have to ensure that groups who are under-represented on the electoral roll register to vote?

[Mr Letwin]

We are fully committed to bringing more under-represented groups into electoral participation. That is why we are working with Operation Black Vote and other such groups to bring people in from the black and minority ethnic communities. I also draw my hon. Friend’s attention to the very interesting experiment being tried at Sheffield University to nudge the student population to sign up for an automatic registration system. We are looking very carefully at that.