| Heading: |
Absent Voting: Registration |
| Question ID: |
1751242 |
| UIN: |
21147 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-12-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5134 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Andy MacNae
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Andy MacNae
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing the requirement for a national insurance number on postal vote registration forms. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4138 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Rushanara Ali
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| Answering Member handle: |
rushanaraali
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@rushanaraali
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| Answer text: |
The requirement to provide a National Insurance Number when applying for a postal vote acts to ensure that the person making the application is the same individual entitled to apply for the postal vote and mirrors the longstanding practice when registerin... |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |