Electoral Register: 9 Jul 2014: Hansard Written Answers

Chris Ruane Labour, Vale of Clwyd

To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many and what proportion of people were deleted from the electoral register after the second year of non-response to electoral canvass in the 10 local authorities with the (a) greatest and (b) smallest decreases; and what parliamentary constituencies are covered by such local authorities.

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Hansard source (Citation: HC Deb, 9 July 2014, c296W)

Gary Streeter Conservative, South West Devon

The Electoral Commission informs me that the requested data are presented in the following table. These data are for Great Britain and therefore excludes Northern Ireland.

Local authority	Number of deletions (from November 2013 register) following second year of non-response	Deletions (from November 2013 register) following second year of non-response (percentage of register)	Decrease (December 2012 to February/March 2014)
Leeds	28,190	5.0	-24,177
Birmingham	0	0.0	-20,243
Cornwall	16,541	3.9	-13,273
Newham	2,491	1.2	-13,183
Northampton	2,659	1.7	-11,851
Shropshire	3,360	1.4	-11,551
Barnet	2,422	1.0	-11,255
Maidstone	10,498	8.7	-9,257
Durham	1,191	0.3	-6,683
Taunton Deane	—	—	-7,578
Adur	370	0.8	-109
Staffordshire Moorlands	195	0.2	-99
North West Leicestershire	20	0.0	-97
Lewes	569	0.7	-82
Cotswold	105	0.2	-80
Oadby and Wigston	45	0.1	-73
Newcastle-Under-Lyme	885	0.9	-72
Shetland Islands	17	0.1	-48
Surrey Heath	602	0.9	-36
Tunbridge Wells	0	0.0	-22