A Bill to impose certain duties upon Her Majesty’s Government to ensure the accuracy, completeness and utility of electoral registers; to make provision for the sharing of data for the purposes of electoral registration; and for connected purposes.
House of Lords
9 October 2019
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The Automatic Electoral Registration Bill would require the government to take steps to improve how accurate, complete and useful the electoral registers are. It would also allow data to be shared between government bodies and others to help with registering voters, subject to safeguards. The goal is to streamline registration and make the registers more reliable.
The bill is currently at the 2nd Reading in the House of Lords, having had its first reading in July 2017. It has not yet progressed to Committee or to the House of Commons.
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18 Jul 2017
First reading took place on 18 July. This stage is a formality that signals the start of the Bill's journey through the Lords.
The 2017-2019 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
