To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Newby (HL2042), what assessment they have made of the impact of forthcoming legislation on future levels of electoral registration: (1) among young people aged between 18 and 25; (2) among students; (3) among people with learning disabilities; (4) among people with disabilities generally; (5) among people living in areas of high social deprivation; and (6) among ethnic minorities.

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Newby (HL2042), what assessment they have made of the impact of forthcoming legislation on future levels of electoral registration: (1) in England; (2) in Scotland; (3) in Wales; (4) in metropolitan areas; (5) in urban areas; (6) in suburban areas; (7) in rural areas; and (8) in coastal regions.

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Newby (HL2042), what assessment they have made of the impact of forthcoming legislation on future levels of electoral registration: (1) in parliamentary constituencies with Conservative MPs; (2) in parliamentary constituencies with Labour MPs; and (3) in parliamentary constituencies with Liberal Democrat MPs.

The noble Lord will have seen the recent government-funded research on under-registered groups mentioned in Lord Newby's Written Answer to HL2042. The report entitled under-registered groups and individual electoral registration, is available to download from the Cabinet Office website. The study explores the barriers to registration both under the current system and potentially arising from the implementation of individual electoral registration (IER). The aim of the research was to help the government to identify ways in which these barriers may be overcome and inform the implementation plans for IER.

This latest research follows several important pieces of research already carried out by the Electoral Commission that have highlighted the problem of under-registration in groups among those listed by the noble Lord. As the research observed similar themes across groups as well as differences within groups, the latest report has identified different typologies, relating to common characteristics of knowledge or attitude among those who did not register, as opposed to categorising people by demographic characteristics, as has often been the case when discussing under-registered groups.