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Elections: Travellers

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Question for Cabinet Office

UIN 110168, tabled on 2 November 2020

Question

Cat Smith
Labour
Lancaster and Fleetwood
Commons

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2020 to Question 100441 on Elections, whether the Government has consulted the Traveller and Roma communities on the potential effect of the introduction of Voter ID on those communities' ability to vote in the next General Election.

Answer

Chloe Smith
Conservative
Norwich North
Commons

Answered on

9 November 2020

Further to the answers to PQs 104752 and 100441 the Government will work with the Electoral Commission, charities and appropriate civil society organisations. The Government has launched a national strategy to improve the lives of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, and the ONS will include specific recognition of these communities in the forthcoming Census.

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