§ Mr. Cohenasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the electoral register is used in conjunction with information held by the Inland Revenue; and whether there are any plans to use it in that respect when it is available in machine readable form.
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§ Mr. MooreTax offices buy a copy of the local electoral register and use it to check the identity and address of a sample of claimants to tax repayments for internal security purposes. There are at present no plans for any other routine use by the Inland Revenue when the register becomes available in machine readable form.