Skip to main content

Electoral Register

Volume 228: debated on Monday 12 July 1993

The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consideration he has given to bringing forward proposals for a rolling register whereby names can be added to the list of voters throughout the year; and if he will make a statement.

The introduction of a "rolling" electoral register is one of the matters being discussed in the post-election review. The five working groups set up as part of the review are expected to report their findings in

Recorded racial incidents in the Metropolitan police area
Ethnic grouping
YearWhite EuropeanDark-skinned EuropeanBlack/Afro-CaribbeanAsianOrientalArabic/EgyptianOrigin unknown/OtherTotal
1988270545321,3483215252,276
1989384865581,6163525432,747
19904391046491,6614636272,962
19916101146861,893364723,388
19926541307961,86058421343,674

Note.—These figures do not agree with the table for classified racial incidents as in certain cases there is more than one victim per incident.