The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-05-01.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion and number of voters with learning disabilities who (a) register to vote and (b) vote.
Greg Clark
The Government has made no such estimate.
No record is made of disability when registering to vote or when voting.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-04-29.
To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 10 April 2014, Official Report, columns 305-6W, on electoral register, if the Electoral Commission will start to collect the number of visits that ERO’s staff make to individual non-responding households as part of their activities to maintain the electoral register.
Mr Gary Streeter
The Electoral Commission informs me that as part of its monitoring of the transition to Individual Electoral Registration (IER) it will collect data from all EROs at key stages during the transition which will demonstrate the progress EROs are making in implementing IER in their local area. This will not, however, include detailed operational information that EROs will record and monitor locally about the specific interactions they have with individual electors, including the numbers of household visits made by their staff.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-05-06.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which local authorities have achieved the highest increase in levels of voter registration in the last two years; and what steps his Department has taken to ensure that the practices leading to such increases are adopted in other local authorities.
Greg Clark
In 2012/13 the areas with the five largest percentage increases in the numbers registered on the local government register of electors were:
Tower Hamlets
Wycombe
Cambridge
East Lindsey
City of Edinburgh
In 2011/12 the areas were:
Clackmannanshire
Thanet
West Lothian
City of Edinburgh
Shropshire UA
The Government encourages local authorities to share best practice through the Expert Panel of electoral administrators, and various other forums in place to deliver Individual Electoral Registration.
Guidance has also been available on the Association of Electoral Administrators’ website with examples of good practice which electoral registration officers can use to shape their work.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-05-06.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 7 June 2010, Official Report, columns 75-6W, on electoral register, what his most recent estimate is of the electoral registration rate for each region of the UK.
Mr Nick Hurd
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-05-12.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2014, Official Report, column 387W, on the electoral register, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of holding information on the proportion of attainers who are registered to vote; and what assessment he has made of the usefulness of this information in improving the introduction of individual electoral registration.
Greg Clark
It has not proved possible to respond to the Hon Member in the time available before Prorogation.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many days of employee absence there were in each Government department in each of the last 10 years.
Mr Francis Maude
It is for individual departments to provide detailed information on absence for each of the last ten years.
This Government is working to reduce Civil Service absence levels and we know that the average days lost per employee has fallen from 8.7 in June 2010 to 7.4 in December 2013. Average Working Days Lost per staff year are now at their lowest reported figure since 1999, whilst the total number of days lost in the Civil Service is at its lowest recorded level.
The figures for the Cabinet Office are:
|
Dec 2003 |
Dec 2004 |
Dec 2005 |
2005-06 |
2006-07 |
2007-08 |
2008-09 |
2009-10 |
2010-11 |
2011-12 |
2012-13 |
Yr to Dec 2013 |
|
3.5 |
3.0 |
4.2 |
4.1 |
3.3 |
4.8 |
4.8 |
3.6 |
4.0 |
3.7 |
2.7 |
2.5 |
and can be found online here at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-absence-data
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether monies collected from fixed penalty notices issued for failure to register on the electoral register will be retained by the local authority which issues that notice.
Greg Clark
Under paragraph 11 of schedule ZA1 to the Representation of the People Act 1983, monies received from a civil penalty notice issued for failure to respond to a notice of requirement to register on the electoral register are paid into the Consolidated Fund.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what use in formulating policy her Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies her Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
Karen Bradley
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is measuring National Wellbeing, not
as an index but through a framework of 41 indicators which capture social
progress around important aspects of life for individuals, communities and the
nation. The statistics are experimental and as such we should not expect to
have examples of major policies that have been heavily influenced by the
wellbeing data at this stage. However there is much work going on across
government which is detailed in the evidence provided to the Environmental
Audit Committee for its Inquiry into Wellbeing. This can be found at:
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/envir
onmental-audit-committee/inquiries/parliament-2010/well-being/
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the out-of-hospital survival rates are for patients who suffer a heart attack in each year since 1984 for which information is available.
Jane Ellison
Information onsurvival rates for patients who suffer an out of hospital heart attack or an out of hospital cardiac arrest are not collected centrally.
The British Heart Foundation suggests that between 2-12% of people treated by the emergency services after suffering an out of hospital cardiac arrest survive to be discharged from hospital.
The Department has made no assessment of the effect of stress on heart failure, nor has it made any estimate of heart attacks among workers who work 40 or 60 hours per week.
However, researchers analysing data from the Whitehall II study observed that people who believed stress was significantly affecting their health had double the risk of suffering from coronary heart disease, compared to people who did not believe stress was having an impact.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-18.
To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, what recent assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the potential benefits of the inclusion of the actual number and proportion of UK citizens registered to vote as a measure of the Electoral Commission’s effectiveness.
Mr Gary Streeter
The inclusion of the actual number and proportion of UK citizens registered to vote is not currently included as a key success measure of the Electoral Commission’s effectiveness. The Commission’s key success measures are reviewed each year and included in its Corporate Plan which is updated and presented to the Speaker’s Committee for approval on an annual basis.
The Commission works with Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and other stakeholders to increase the number and proportion of UK citizens registered to vote and therefore the change in registrations cannot be attributed solely to the Commission. Changes in registration rates are also likely to be the result of some factors which do not relate directly to registration practices, including levels of political engagement and changes in population mobility.
However, the Commission sets targets for the number of registration forms downloaded from its AboutMyVote website. This measure provides a proxy for the number of registrations attributable to each Commission campaign. The targets for the number of registration forms downloaded vary for each poll taking account of, for example, the size of the electorate.
It is currently not possible to directly map the number of forms downloaded from the Commission’s site to actual registrations as the registers are managed by 363 Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) across Great Britain and EROs do not measure the number of registration forms downloaded from aboutmyvote.co.uk for the specific period of Commission campaigns. Following the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration, the Commission will examine the opportunities presented by online registration to review its registration measurements.