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Electoral Registration

Volume 196: debated on Thursday 17 October 1991

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Q8.

To ask the Prime Minister if he will make a statement on electoral registration trends in Great Britain in the light of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys' analysis on pages 1 to 3 of "Population Trends 64".

I have been asked to reply.There has been a relatively small decline since 1987 in the estimated proportion of the population registered to vote. As the article in "Population Trends" explains, there are a number of reasons why this proportion may change, and it is not possible from the evidence available to identify separately the effect of any particular factor.