Elections: Proof of Identity
(asked on 5th May 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what reason student ID is not valid for voting ID purposes.
This question was answered on 16th May 2023
Further to the Government's policy statement on voter identification, which set out the reasons for the forms of identification accepted in polling stations under the new rules, identity cards bearing the Proof of Age Standards Scheme hologram (a PASS card), including for example the National Union of Students’ (NUS) Totum ID Card, are accepted.
The data requested is not held centrally.