Written question asked by Nick Smith (Labour) on Thursday, 11 April 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 23 April 2019. It was answered by Chloe Smith (Conservative) on Tuesday, 23 April 2019 on behalf of the Cabinet Office.

Electoral Register: Blaenau Gwent

Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the number of uncompleted applications to the electoral register in Blaenau Gwent in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c)2018.

Answer: Since its introduction, over 38 million applications have been facilitated nationally through the Individual Electoral Registration Digital Service, of which over 75% (29 million) of applications were made online via the Register to Vote website. Applications are processed locally by the Electoral Registration Officers who are responsible for completing the registration process and adding an individual to the electoral register. We therefore don’t have access to any statistics on the number of applications that do not complete this process. However, these may be held at the local level.

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