Voter ID

Constitution Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 18 Oct 2023 Closed: 7 Feb 2024 Parliament page
Photographic voter ID was used for the first time in England in the May 2023 local elections. The Committee is conducting a short inquiry into the impact of the introduction of voter ID and lessons to be learned ahead of the next local elections in May 2024 and the forthcoming general election.
4 Oral sessions
4 Letters
4 Events
Activity timeline 12 events
19 Dec
2023
Correspondence
14 Dec
2023
Correspondence
6 Dec
2023
Oral evidence
6 Dec
2023
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Room 3, Palace of Westminster
1 Dec
2023
Correspondence
1 Dec
2023
Correspondence
22 Nov
2023
Oral evidence
22 Nov
2023
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Room 4, Palace of Westminster
15 Nov
2023
Oral evidence
15 Nov
2023
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Room 4, Palace of Westminster
8 Nov
2023
Oral evidence
8 Nov
2023
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Room 4, Palace of Westminster
Oral evidence sessions 4 sessions
6 Dec 2023
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Becca Crosier · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Simon Hoare MP · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
22 Nov 2023
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Dr Glenn Gottfried · Ipsos UK Gideon Skinner · Ipsos UK
15 Nov 2023
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Cleland Sneddon · South Lanarkshire Council Graham Farrant · BCP (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole) Council Martha Matheou · London Borough of Sutton
8 Nov 2023
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Craig Westwood · Electoral Commission Peter Stanyon · Association of Electoral Administrators Tom Hawthorn · Electoral Commission
Correspondence 4 letters
19 Dec 2023 To committee Letter from Baroness Drake, Chair of the Constitution Committee, to Simon Hoare MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Local Government) at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, on the findings of the Committee's inquiry into the introduction of voter ID (19 December 2023)
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14 Dec 2023 To committee Letter from Simon Hoare MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Local Government), to Baroness Drake, Chair of the Constitution Committee, following up on his evidence session with the Committee on voter ID on 6 December 2023 (14 December 2023)
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1 Dec 2023 To committee Letter from Craig Westwood, Director of Communications, Policy and Research at the Electoral Commission, to Baroness Drake, Chair of the Constitution Committee, following up on data relating to the gender breakdown of ID ownership for the Committee's inquiry into voter ID (28 November 2023)
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1 Dec 2023 To committee Letter from Simon Hoare MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Local Government) at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, to Baroness Drake, Chair of the Constitution Committee, on implementation of voter identification: progress on evaluation (30 November 2023)
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