division_name: Opposition Day &#8212; [16th Allotted Day] &#8212; Electoral Registration
motion: <p class="" pid="b.344.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.344.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House recognises the importance of a complete and accurate electoral register to the health of our democracy; welcomes the fact that 1.8 million voters have registered using online registration, but notes that, according to the Electoral Commission, 7.5 million eligible voters are missing from the register; notes with concern that an estimated one million voters have left the register in the past year and that the shift to individual electoral registration could see millions more fall off the register; calls on the Government and the Electoral Commission to do more to tackle under-registration, including block-registering students in university or college accommodation and people living in adult sheltered accommodation and care homes, introducing a schools registration scheme, on the model of the Northern Ireland Schools Initiative, to boost registration in time for the General Election on <phrase class="date" code="2015-05-07">7 May 2015</phrase>, and maximising the use of national and local data sets in securing a complete register; and further calls on the Government to set a clear goal to reduce the numbers of missing voters and to delay fully implementing individual electoral registration until this goal is met.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.384.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put forthwith, </i>That the Question be now put.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.384.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">Question agreed to.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.384.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Main Question accordingly <i>put</i>.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.384.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b.384.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 216, Noes 289.</p>