Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking with the Department for Education to implement the student electoral registration provision of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017.

The Cabinet Office and Department for Education worked together on the public consultation that led to the issuing of Ministerial Guidance to the Office for Students (OfS) on electoral registration. The guidance is available at: https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/media/1019/facilitating-electoral-registration-guidance.pdf

The OfS is now in the process of drafting guidance to HE providers which will be made available later this year.