Shabana Mahmood – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Shabana Mahmood on 2016-07-12.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of electoral registration arrangements for UK nationals abroad in (a) general and (b) Germany in advance of the EU referendum.

Chris Skidmore

Online registration has made the application process for overseas electors easier than ever before. Between the start of the EU referendum campaign on 18 April and the extended registration deadline on 9 June over 151,000 overseas electors submitted an application to register to vote.

The Cabinet Office does not hold data on overseas elector applications by country.