§ Mr. Harry BarnesTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what information he holds about the use made of electoral registers in the compiling of the community charge registers currently operating in Scotland.
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§ Mr. LangSection 17(2) of the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987, as amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1988, provides that community charges registration officers shall, for the purpose of discharging their functions, have access to and the use of any information which electoral registration officers for their areas may have acquired in connection with any of their functions. In Scotland the community charges registration officers are also the electoral registration officers. I have no information about the uses made of electoral registers by individual community charges registration officers.