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We have heard that it is quite an onerous task to keep the electoral register up to date. Has the Government considered what assistance it might provide to ensure that the register is resourced and kept up to date as well as it can be?
What are your views on the extent to which those principles have been considered in the trialling of the technology to date and the balancing of the cost to individual liberty and the proposed benefits to public safety, which is what we are really talking about?
The second principle is that the data that we use should be as up to date as possible. We do not want elections to be conducted on the basis of electorate data that is three, four or five years out of date.
The council tax reduction scheme calculations of entitlement have benefited from the fact that the case load to date has been made up of less complicated cases.
What is the communication strategy for informing EU citizens of the most up-to-date information on what is happening with EU negotiations and about what their future status might be?
It is also considered necessary to amend section 18 by changing the date by which an occasional return is due from seven days to 30 days after the date of the taxable activity.