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FOI request (FOI222580)
Cost of administering elections
Requested Fri 01 September 2017
Responded Fri 01 September 2017Can you please provide me with the estimated or actual amount of money spent by the local authority on the following items when administering i) the 2016 EU referendum and ii) the 2017 UK General Election?
- Printing ballot papers
- Distributing postal votes within the UK
- Distributing postal votes abroad
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Staff time for
- manning polling stations
- counting ballot papers
- administering postal votes and proxy vote applications
- processing received postal votes
- Promotional material highlighting the date of the vote across the local authority
- Pencils at polling stations
- Polling booths
- Ballot boxes
- Tactile voting devices
- Training staff (both counting staff and staff manning polling stations)
- Signs directing voters to the polling station
- Polling station signs
- Hiring polling stations
- Transporting ballot papers from polling stations to count centres
- Storing completed ballot papers after the election
- Provision of disabled access at polling stations
Response
2016 EU referendum: Q1. £3,733.46Q2. £7,189.71Q3. Included in above cost (no.2)Q4a. £20,441.00 Q4b. £6,165.00 Q4c. We do not hold this information as this function forms part of core staffing costs. Q4d. £3,825.00Q5. We do not hold any information relating to this question.Q6. We do not hold this information as a separate cost, as they form part of the sundry packs for polling stations.Q7. No cost attached as we already hold stock of polling booths.Q8. No cost attached as we already hold stock of ballot boxes.Q9. £187.20Q10. Cost included within 4a and 4b.Q11. We do not hold this information as a separate cost, as they form part of the sundry packs for polling stations.Q12. No cost attached as we already hold stock of polling station signs.Q13. £8,629.00Q14. We do not hold this information as Presiding Officers transport ballot boxes to count centre.Q15. We do not hold this information as storage is maintained at corporate archive.Q16. No cost attached as we already hold stock of disabled ramps etc. We do not have any completed costs for the 2017 UK parliamentary election at this current time. These will not be available until after 8 December 2017 -
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