Levelling-Up Committee questions election administrators and voter registration campaigners
The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (LUHC) Committee questions election administrators from across Great Britain, followed by voter registration campaigners, including British Youth Council, Disability Rights UK, and also from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, for its inquiry on electoral registration.
Meeting details
The cross-party group of MPs are likely to examine the devolution of electoral registration policy and the challenges this presents. The Committee will also look at the case for automatic or assisted systems of voter registration and related issues concerning data protection and cyber security. The Committee is also likely to explore the success of outreach activities, barriers to boosting levels of voter registration, and the impact of recent annual canvass reforms and of the move to Voter ID.
The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (LUHC) Committee recently published written evidence submissions for the electoral registration inquiry, including from organisations such as Solace, the Electoral Commission, Electoral Reform Society, My Vote My Voice, and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC). Further written submissions from the Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA) will be published on the afternoon of Monday 17 April.
Research by the Electoral Commission from 2019 analysed electoral registers and found that 17% of eligible voters in Great Britain, as many as 9.4 million people, were either missing from the electoral register or not registered at their current address. The research also said that 1 in 3 young people were not registered to vote.