The House of Lords has been undertaking a post-legislative scrutiny (PLS) inquiry in late 2019-early 2020 into the operation of the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013. Lords Committees for PLS are ad-hoc, set up for the purposes of the inquiry and then dissolved. They make recommendations that government must respond to.

The Committee has had two calls for evidence: one prior to the 2019 general election and one subsequent to the election in order to examine any lessons that might be learned from that experience. It has also held a number of oral evidence sessions, with practitioners, electoral administrators, political parties, and academics.

Based on my work on electoral integrity and administration in the UK, I have provided written evidence in both open calls from the Committee. I was also delighted to be invited to give oral evidence to the Committee, coincidentally on the day that the House of Commons was debating holding the December 2019 general election. My written submissions have been published by the Committee here. A transcript of my oral evidence on 29th October 2019 can be found on the Committee’s oral evidence pages here.

The Committee’s report will be published in the next few months.