Question

To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many successful prosecutions for (a) postal, not proxy, vote fraud and (b) electoral registration fraud there have been in each of the last 15 years.

The Electoral Commission informs me that data for offences under the various Representation of the People Acts which specifically refer to offences relating to electoral registration fraud, or postal vote fraud cannot be separately identified on the Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings Database as they form part of a miscellaneous group which cannot be separately analysed. However, since 2008, the Electoral Commission has collated and published data reported by UK police forces on cases of alleged electoral fraud annually on its website here:

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/electoral-fraud/electoral-fraud-responsibilities