Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to increase electoral registration in (a) London and (b) the rest of the UK.

Over £14 million has been invested over the last two financial years to support the cost of activities aimed at increasing the levels of voter registration, including in the run up to the General Election.

The Electoral Commission (EC) published on 18 June an analysis of the electoral registers used for the elections on 7 May. It showed that the numbers of entries on these registers had increased by 1% compared with the last ones published prior to the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration. The Government will keep under review its approach to electoral registration in light of the EC’s report and its findings.