PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
European Parliament: Elections (6 June 2019)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of non-UK EU citizens living in the UK who were unable to register to vote in the European parliamentary elections in (a) Slough (b) the UK.

Asked by:
Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour)

Cabinet Office does not hold information on the number of non-UK EU citizens, resident in
the UK, who do or do not register to vote in European Parliamentary elections

Estimates of the number of eligible people on the registers for electoral events are
published by the Electoral Commission following each poll, but have not previously
included a breakdown of the numbers of EU citizens eligible to vote. These reports are
available online at: www.electoralcommission.org.uk.

Each Electoral Registration Officer maintains a register for their own local area. Some
headline registration statistics by area are collated and published annually by the Office for
National Statistics, however, this does not include a breakdown of the numbers of EU
citizens registered to vote. The total number of UK local government electors – which
includes EU citizens – in the year to December 2018 was 47.8 million

The latest bulletin is available at:
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/elections/electoralregistration.

Answered by:
Kevin Foster (Conservative)
11 June 2019