To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what new initiatives his Department undertook to improve electoral registration for the recent annual registration process. [37083]
We continue to give general guidance to electoral registration officers and to advise them on best practice based on annual research which we commission. We also run an annual publicity campaign to coincide
| Notifiable offences recorded in the metropolitan police district by borough district Metropolitan Police District—12 months to June 1995 | ||||||||||
| Number of offences | ||||||||||
| Barking | Burnet | Bexley | Brent | Bromley | Camden | Croydon | Ealing | Enfield | Greenwich | |
| Total | 13,930 | 24,147 | 17,510 | 24,421 | 26,619 | 34,937 | 32,900 | 27,029 | 20,966 | 40,942 |
| Violence against the person | 508 | 707 | 704 | 1,177 | 1,145 | 1,209 | 2,101 | 1,287 | 1,181 | 2,316 |
| Sexual offences | 250 | 159 | 133 | 204 | 179 | 161 | 251 | 204 | 136 | 481 |
| Robbery | 226 | 485 | 198 | 1,863 | 264 | 1,305 | 817 | 825 | 466 | 987 |
| Burglary going equipped | 3,316 | 5,463 | 4,628 | 4,903 | 5,691 | 6,152 | 7,086 | 5,163 | 5,069 | 10,081 |
| Theft and handling stolen goods | 6,217 | 11,117 | 7,513 | 9,975 | 12,465 | 19,349 | 14,300 | 11,861 | 9,080 | 17,098 |
| Fraud and forgery | 431 | 911 | 508 | 1,076 | 836 | 1,088 | 1,353 | 1,072 | 780 | 1,423 |
| Criminal damage | 2,876 | 5,170 | 3,713 | 5,025 | 5,841 | 5,443 | 6,731 | 6,400 | 4,135 | 8,161 |
| Other | 106 | 135 | 113 | 198 | 198 | 230 | 261 | 217 | 119 | 395 |
| Theft of vehicle | 1,177 | 1,070 | 1,157 | 950 | 1,314 | 1,262 | 1,408 | 1,365 | 1,140 | 1,883 |
| Theft from vehicle | 1,919 | 3,562 | 2,560 | 3,168 | 4,446 | 5,452 | 4,613 | 3,437 | 3,111 | 5,460 |
| Burglary in a dwelling | 1,864 | 3,468 | 2,694 | 3,327 | 3,541 | 3,350 | 4,847 | 3,401 | 3,061 | 7,055 |
| Burglary in another building | 1,443 | 1,981 | 1,921 | 1,554 | 2,111 | 2,751 | 2,192 | 1,735 | 1,988 | 2,965 |
| Hackney | Hammersmith | Haringey | Harrow | Havering | Hillingdon | Hounslow | Islington | Kensington and Chelsea | Kingston | |
| Total | 28,213 | 13,085 | 22,609 | 13,019 | 16,276 | 21,972 | 23,332 | 27,835 | 25,831 | 16,527 |
| Violence against the person | 1,355 | 671 | 1,225 | 513 | 393 | 1,019 | 1,290 | 1,727 | 840 | 697 |
| Sexual offences | 197 | 73 | 166 | 80 | 233 | 123 | 256 | 208 | 114 | 97 |
| Robbery | 2,031 | 519 | 1,299 | 231 | 113 | 165 | 292 | 1,309 | 1,076 | 173 |
| Burglary going equipped | 7,743 | 2,049 | 4,768 | 2,648 | 3,461 | 4,760 | 4,734 | 5,517 | 4,433 | 3,949 |
| Theft and handling stolen goods | 11,300 | 6,732 | 10,068 | 5,805 | 8,305 | 9,555 | 10,215 | 13,090 | 15,284 | 7,736 |
| Fraud and forgery | 1,026 | 396 | 818 | 524 | 604 | 587 | 1,279 | 861 | 897 | 547 |
| Criminal damage | 4,259 | 2,502 | 4,098 | 3,148 | 3,096 | 5,676 | 4,998 | 4,843 | 2,974 | 3,134 |
| Other | 302 | 143 | 167 | 70 | 71 | 87 | 268 | 280 | 213 | 194 |
| Theft of vehicle | 1,422 | 739 | 1,424 | 417 | 1,681 | 998 | 745 | 1,211 | 872 | 318 |
| Theft from vehicle | 3,721 | 2,650 | 2,679 | 2,042 | 2,155 | 4,068 | 2,977 | 4,527 | 3,279 | 2,110 |
| Burglary in a dwelling | 5,322 | 1,404 | 3,417 | 1,760 | 1,667 | 2,720 | 2,827 | 3,036 | 3,560 | 2,441 |
| Burglary in another building | 2,368 | 624 | 1,333 | 873 | 1,785 | 2,029 | 1,876 | 2,163 | 832 | 1,491 |
with the canvass. This year, a new television advertisement with associated posters was commissioned and produced at a cost of £800,000.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will bring forward changes to election law to allow challenges to be made to the use of a vote by a person who is falsely registered. [37076]
We are examining ways in which the possible risk of fraudulent electoral registration might be reduced and hope to reach conclusions soon.