Electoral Register

(asked on 16th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to ensure consistency in Unique Property Reference Numbers for the database used by councils and the gov.uk/register-to-vote website.


Answered by
Chris Skidmore Portrait
Chris Skidmore
This question was answered on 19th October 2017

Citizens applying to register to vote using the Government website must enter their
address. After verification, citizen applications are passed to Electoral Registration
Officers. The record passed to each ERO includes the Unique Property Reference
Number (UPRN) drawn from an Ordnance Survey database. It is up to each ERO how to
make use of this UPRN.

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