Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress the Government is making on trialling new methods of voter identification.

The voter ID pilot schemes are part of a comprehensive programme of reform that will enhance public confidence in our elections, and strengthen electoral integrity. The opportunity to pilot voter ID in May 2018 was offered to all local authorities in Great Britain and Woking, Gosport, Bromley, Swindon and Watford have committed to do so. We are working with each pilot authority to identify the forms of identification they want to use to meet their needs. In addition, Tower Hamlets will be piloting measures to improve the integrity of the postal vote process. Each authority is working collaboratively with the Cabinet Office on the design of their pilot with expert advice from the Electoral Commission and Association of Electoral Administrators. Equality impact assessments are being undertaken to ensure that the needs of all voters are understood.