Lord Rennard

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total cost to the public purse of conducting the 2015 General Election.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the completeness of the electoral register as at 1 December 2015, broken down by (1) the UK in total, (2) country, (3) local authority and (4) constituency.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of research from the University of East Anglia forecasting that the introduction of Individual Voter Registration will lead to a decline in levels of electoral registration.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they have taken to ascertain how many people shown as having voted on the marked register for the General Election on 7 May 2015 were on the electoral register at that time solely by virtue of the household based...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to gather data from Electoral Registration Officers about levels of electoral registration as at 1 December 2015, and whether that process will differ from practice in previous years.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will publish data showing the number of entries on the electoral register as at 1 December 2015; and if so, whether they will break down that information by (1) country, (2) constituency and (3) local authority...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to introduce a limit on the size of personal, or company, donations to political parties.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have, if any, to reduce the costs of government special advisers.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the estimated annual cost of their special advisers.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to limit spending in particular constituencies during a general election campaign to prevent any imbalance in the funding available to candidates unduly affecting election outcomes.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the annual effect of the planned reductions to Policy Development Grants on political parties' funding for policy development.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bridges of Headley on 21 September (HL1901) whether they have (1) ascertained the views of, and (2) obtained the support of, (a) the Scottish Parliament, (b) the Welsh Assembly, (c) th...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bridges of Headley on 3 August (HL1680), whether their discussions with local government and the devolved administrations about bringing forward the full implementation of individual e...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consultation there has been with (1) the Scottish Parliament, (2) the National Assembly for Wales, and (3) the Local Government Association, about plans to bring forward full implementation of individual electoral regi...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the proportion of people aged 18 on the electoral registers in (1) Northern Ireland, and (2) Great Britain; and what consideration they have given to bringing the electoral registration process in Great Britain into...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the advice of the Electoral Commission that the transition to individual electoral registration should not be brought forward from 1 December 2016.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many civil penalties for non-compliance with the electoral registration process have been issued since the penalty system was introduced; and what steps they plan to take to increase awareness of such civil penalties.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to undertake a consultation based on independent market research about whether people would be more likely to vote in elections if polling stations were open at weekends.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the case for changing the process by which constituency boundaries are redrawn.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of whether changes to the electoral registration process are needed to ensure that people are aware of the civil penalties for non-compliance with the registration process; and what proportion...