Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to establish an online service to enable people to check if they are registered to vote.

Determining an individual’s registration status is the responsibility of Electoral Registration
Officers and only EROs hold up-to- date information allowing a citizen to check if they are
registered. This means that citizens can contact their local electoral administration office to
make enquiries about registration status.

Making information about registration status available on-line on a national basis would be
a significant undertaking and we have no current plans to introduce such a system. It may
be more appropriate for EROs to work with their software suppliers to make registers
available for checking on-line.