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Electoral Register

Volume 490: debated on Friday 27 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many leaflets promoting overseas voter registration were sent to each British mission overseas in the last 12 months. (265964)

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's ‘Going to live abroad’ leaflet provides information on overseas voter registration. 7,953 of these leaflets were distributed in the last 12 months to the following diplomatic missions overseas:

Accra (100)

Addis Ababa (50)

Alicante (100)

Almaty (40)

Ankara (500)

Athens (400)

Bangkok (300)

Banjul (50)

Beirut (250)

Belmopan (50)

Boston (50)

Brisbane (150)

Budapest (40)

Cape Town (50)

Caracas (50)

Chennai (25)

Dubai (100)

Goa (100)

Ho Chin Minh (100)

Hong Kong (50)

Jakarta (300)

Kampala (50)

Karachi (20)

Kyiv (100)

Kigali (200)

Kolkata (25)

La Paz (50)

Las Palmas (20)

Lille (50)

Luanda (10)

Lyon (10)

Manila (300)

Madrid (60)

Malaga (250)

Montenegro (500)

Montevideo (100)

Moscow (300)

Mumbai (50)

Munich (10)

Muscat (100)

New Delhi (25)

New York (50)

Panama City (250)

Palma (200)

Perth (100)

Phnom Penh (40)

Port Louis (50)

Port Moresby (200)

Pretoria (100)

Rome (250)

Sarajevo (5)

Stockholm (30)

Suva (200)

Tashkent (20).

In addition to this, 6,350 Electoral Commission ‘Overseas Voters’ leaflets were sent to the following diplomatic missions overseas:

Madrid (5,000)

Malaga (1,000)

Palma de Mallorca (100)

Lisbon (250)

Portimao (50).