Written Question·Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities·UIN 182347
Voter Authority Certificates: Ethnic Groups
Tabled: 24 April 2023
Answered: 3 May 2023
Named DayQuestion
Clive Lewis
Labour — Norwich South
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 31 March to Question 171447 on Voter Authority Certificates: Ethnic Groups, if he will make a statement on collecting data on the declared ethnicity of applicants for Voter Authority Certificates.
Answer
As noted in the response referenced in the question, data on the declared ethnicity of applicants for Voter Authority Certificates is not held centrally.
Research commissioned by the Cabinet Office shows that people in an ethnic minority group were more likely to hold photographic identification than individuals from the White group (99% vs. 98%).