Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Deputy Prime Minister

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-05-06.

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what recent assessment he has made of the compatability of software used by local authorities for electoral registration and that used by (a) the Electoral Commission and (b) his own Department.

Greg Clark

In developing the digital service which supports the implementation of Individual Electoral Registration (IER), the Government has ensured the compatibility of Election Management System (EMS) software used by local authorities and valuation joint boards with the mechanisms which will manage the transfer and matching of data. This has been achieved by developing an interface which standardises the communication of data between EMS software and the IER Digital Service. This has been fully and successfully tested.

The Electoral Commission has no direct responsibility for the processing or determination of registration applications and therefore has no requirement to interact with the digital service.