Absent Voting
(asked on 5th November 2014) - View Source
Question
To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, which 10 local authorities had (a) the largest and (b) the smallest improvement between the Department for Work and Pensions confirmation live run and the local authority data matching live run of data transfer.
The Electoral Commission informs me that the list of the local authorities with the largest improvement between matching with the Department of Work and Pensions and local data is included in its report on the confirmation live run which is available on its website, was circulated to all Members of Parliament on publication, and is available in the library of the House of Commons. The local authorities are as follows:
Local authority | DWP match rate | Post-LDM match rate | Increase |
Bournemouth | 72% | 87% | 16% |
Southwark | 76% | 93% | 16% |
Richmond upon Thames | 63% | 79% | 17% |
Ealing | 71% | 89% | 18% |
Lambeth | 57% | 77% | 20% |
City of London | 54% | 75% | 21% |
Kensington and Chelsea | 48% | 71% | 24% |
Camden | 52% | 79% | 27% |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 54% | 82% | 28% |
Westminster | 49% | 81% | 32% |
The Commission further informs me that it cannot accurately provide the local authorities with the smallest increments. This is a result of limitations with the data, as set out in the Commission’s report, which does not always allow carried forward electors, those who did not respond to the last household canvass and who cannot legally be automatically confirmed, to be reliably separated.
The full dataset is available on the Commission’s website.