Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many allegations of impersonation were made to the police in each of the five local authorities piloting voter ID at the 2018 local government elections; and what proportion of votes cast in each of the five local authorities those cases represent.

Voter ID is an important step to ensuring the public can have greater confidence in our democratic system.

Information relating to the number of allegations of impersonation is not held centrally by the Cabinet Office. This information is a matter for each relevant police force and Returning Officer.

The impact of voter ID, including data from police forces will be the subject of the Electoral Commission’s independent, statutory evaluation of the pilot schemes and it will publish its findings in the summer of 2018:

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/242016/Background-Briefing-Electoral-Commission-evaluation-of-voter-ID-pilots.pdf