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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing an automatic voter registration system for elections.

Individual Electoral Registration (IER), introduced in 2014, brought registering to vote into the 21^st century by making it possible to register to vote online in as little as three minutes. It also ensured that every individual had control and ownership over the process.

The UK Government has no plans to reassess its policy with regards to automatic voter registration, as to do so would risk undermining the principle of individuals taking ownership of registering to vote.