To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Government review of the impact of Voter Identification in the May 2023 local elections, whether the data collected to record the number of people turned away from polling stations will include data on those who arrive at a polling station without any form of photo ID.
Answered on
14 March 2023
Departmental correspondence with the House of Lord’s Constitution committee is published online and is readily available here, here and here, and with the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee here.
As set out last year by ministers to Parliament, we have “already committed to a review that will take place after the May elections. I can confirm our intention that the results of that review should be published no later than November 2023”.
As set out in the Voter Identification Regulations 2022, which are readily available online at the following link, staff at polling stations will collect data in accordance with paragraph 34 of those regulations.