In answer to the number of queries posted today about the use of the
register, perhaps I can help.
Secondary legislation was due this year (and then put back due to the change
of responsibility for electoral law) which would allow 2 versions of the
register to be collated - a 'full version' and an 'edited' version. The
full version would only be used for specified purposes (i.e. electoral
purposes, prevention and detection of fraud and crime etc.) the edited
version can be sold on to anyone.
The electoral register currently being updated through the annual audit
forms (which you will have received recently) cannot take these changes into
account as, currently, that part of the Act has not been commenced.
Incidentally, on the whole, Local Authorities make only a few sales of the
register - generally on to large data collection companies who then re-sell
the data.
Nicola Wood
People Information Programme Manager
and Local Authorities Secure Electoral Register (LASER) project manager
Local Government Information House
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