Speeches

Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-26.

To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many and what proportion of people were deleted from the electoral register after the second year of non-response to electoral canvass in the 10 local authorities with the (a) greatest and (b) smallest decreases; and what parliamentary constituencies are covered by such local authorities.

Mr Gary Streeter

The Electoral Commission informs me that the requested data is presented in the table below. This data is for Great Britain and therefore excludes Northern Ireland.

Local authority

Number of deletions (from Nov 2013 register) following second year of non-response

Deletions (from Nov 2013 register) following second year of non-response (% of register)

Decrease (Dec 2012 to Feb/March 2014)

Leeds

28,190

5.0

-24177

Birmingham

0

0.0

-20243

Cornwall

16541

3.9

-13273

Newham

2491

1.2

-13183

Northampton

2,659

1.7

-11851

Shropshire

3,360

1.4

-11551

Barnet

2422

1.0

-11255

Maidstone

10498

8.7

-9257

Durham

1191

0.3

-6683

Taunton Deane

-7578

Adur

370

0.8

-109

Staffordshire Moorlands

195

0.2

-99

North West Leicestershire

20

0.0

-97

Lewes

569

0.7

-82

Cotswold

105

0.2

-80

Oadby and Wigston

45

0.1

-73

Newcastle-Under-Lyme

885

0.9

-72

Shetland Islands

17

0.1

-48

Surrey Heath

602

0.9

-36

Tunbridge Wells

0

0.0

-22

The following constituencies are covered by these areas:

East Ham

West Ham

Elmet and Rothwell

Leeds Central

Leeds East

Leeds North East

Leeds North West

Leeds West

Morley and Outwood

Pudsey

Birmingham Edgbaston

Birmingham, Erdington

Birmingham, Hall Green

Birmingham, Hodge Hill

Birmingham, Ladywood

Birmingham Northfield

Birmingham, Perry Barr

Birmingham Selly Oak

Birmingham, Yardley

Sutton Coldfield

Camborne and Redruth

North Cornwall

South East Cornwall

St Ives (includes the Isles of Scilly)

Truro and Falmouth

Northampton North

Northampton South

South Northamptonshire

Ludlow

North Shropshire

Shrewsbury and Atcham

The Wrekin

Chipping Barnet

Finchley and Golders Green

Hendon

Faversham and Mid Kent

Maidstone and The Weald

Taunton Deane

Bishop Auckland

City of Durham

Easington

North Durham

North West Durham

Sedgefield

East Worthing and Shoreham

Staffordshire Moorlands

Stone

North West Leicestershire

Brighton, Kemptown

Lewes

The Cotswolds

Harborough

Newcastle-under-Lyme

Staffordshire Moorlands

Stoke-on-Trent North

Stone

Orkney and Shetland

Surrey Heath

Maidstone and The Weald

Tunbridge Wells