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Electoral Administration Bill

The hon. Gentleman said that there is not a crisis of under-registration in Northern Ireland. When the changes were implemented there, registration went down to 86 per cent. Some of that reduction was about getting rid of guff on the register, but registration has since climbed to only 91 per cent., so 9 to 10 per cent. of the Northern Irish electorate are disfranchised because they are not on the register. Is that not a crisis?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
439 c203 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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