§ Mr. Home Robertsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will estimate how many electors who should have been qualified to vote in the recent general election 152W were not able to do so because of errors or omissions from the electoral register; and if he will take any steps to improve the accuracy of the register in future.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonA study by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys of electoral registration in Great Britain in 1981 estimated that almost 95 per cent. of the eligible people in Scotland were included in the electoral register. A more up-to-date figure is not available. Steps taken to improve the accuracy of the register include an annual publicity campaign to encourage those eligible, especially young people, to make sure that they are included in the draft register, arid to check the draft register when it is published at the end of November each year.