Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many instances of electors leaving behind their voting identification documents in polling stations occurred at the local elections on 4 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.