Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Deputy Prime Minister

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-05-06.

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of how many and what proportion of electoral registration officers (EROs) conducted data matching activities for the purpose of improving individual electoral registration; and what steps he can take against EROs who did not conduct such data matching activities.

Greg Clark

As Individual Electoral Registration (IER) will be introduced from 10 June 2014 an assessment has not yet been made.

In line with current practice, once IER is in place the performance of Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) will be monitored through the performance standards of the Electoral Commission.