Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential effectiveness of auto-enrolment onto the electoral roll for all UK citizens eligible to vote.

The Government is not giving consideration to automatic electoral registration because automatic registration would not be compatible with the principles of Individual Electoral Registration.

Alongside the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration, the implementation of online registration has transformed the ease with which citizens can get on the electoral register, for example after moving house. Applying online takes less than five minutes. The online system is widely used, especially around elections, enjoys high levels of user satisfaction and is highly efficient.