Electoral Commission Committee written question – answered at on 2 April 2014.
To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, whether the Student Loans Company database has been used for purposes of maximising student registration.
The Electoral Commission informs me that the Student Loans Company (SLC) database was used during two data matching pilot projects which were organised by the Cabinet Office and evaluated by the Commission.
These pilots aimed to test the usefulness of giving Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) access to information held on national, public databases in order to improve the accuracy and completeness of their electoral register by identifying unregistered people.
In their evaluation of both pilots the Commission concluded that the Student Loans Company data were of limited use in identifying unregistered people.
The Commission's two evaluation reports can be found here:
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