Urgent Question on voter registration: 8 June 2016
8 June 2016 (updated on 8 June 2016)
Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, Matthew Hancock, responded to an Urgent Question asked by Shadow Minister for Young People and Voter Registration, Gloria De Piero, in the House of Commons on the problems with the GOV.UK voter registration website just before the deadline for voter registration for the EU referendum on Wednesday 8 June.
- Watch Parliament TV: Urgent Question on problems with the GOV.UK voter registration website just before the deadline for voter registration for the EU referendum
- Read Commons Hansard: Voter Registration
- Read current Parliamentary material in Topics: Electoral Register
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