Oral QuestionSpeaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

To ask the hon. Member for City of Chester, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what recent estimate the Commission has made of the potential number of fraudulent votes that will be prevented with plans to mandate voter ID at future elections.

Tabled: 10 June 2021Answered: 17 June 2021

Asked by

Mr Alistair Carmichael

Liberal DemocratOrkney and Shetland

Answering Minister

the hon. Member for City of Chester, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

Answer from Hansard

The Deputy Prime Minister

The right hon. Lady is right to say that I value the work of care providers and carers across the whole of the United Kingdom. That is why we have put in additional funding through the Budget. We have been ensuring that for care providers and charities, including hospices, the tax regime is among the most generous in the world. That includes tax relief for charities and their donors worth more than £6 billion for the tax year ending April 2024. We have put record funding into our NHS, we have increased funding into adult and children’s social care and we will continue to support our public services, which were left on their knees by the last Government.