Question follow-through · 21147
Absent Voting: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing the requirement for a national insurance number on postal vote registration forms.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jan 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing the requirement for a national insurance number on postal vote registration forms.
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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9 Jan 2025
Answer published
The requirement to provide a National Insurance Number when applying for a postal vote acts to ensure that the person making the application is the same individual entitled to apply for the postal vote and mirrors the longstanding practice when registerin...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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