Agenda item

To deal with questions, if any, received under Council Procedure Rule 11.

Councillor Rodney Bates asked a question of the Leader relating to Individual Electoral Registration (IER) and received a written reply.  It was noted that John Penrose MP, Minister for Constitutional Reform at the Cabinet Office, had announced in Parliament, on 16 July 2015, that he would be bringing forward the end date for the transition to Individual Electoral Registration from December 2016 to December 2015.

In response to a supplementary question from Councillor Bates the Leader agreed to ask Michael Gove MP, and the Local Government Association, to urge the government to change its recent decision so that the transition to IER would end in December 2016.