Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate the Government has made of the number of eligible people who are not on the electoral register in (a) Coventry and (b) the West Midlands.

The Cabinet Office does not hold information on the number of eligible electors in local authorities. A range of registration statistics is available from the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) website: www.ons.gov.uk

Estimates of the number of eligible people not included on electoral registers are published occasionally by the Electoral Commission, but not at sub-regional level. The latest report on register completeness and accuracy was produced by the Electoral Commission in 2016 and is available online: www.electoralcommission.org.uk. The report estimates register completeness in the West Midlands at 88 per cent in December 2015, compared to a national average of 84 per cent.