This becomes even more crucial when you are looking to change your address on the Electoral Roll or if you plan on applying for credit like a mortgage or credit card anytime soon. Our Multi Agency Credit Report is the only service in the UK that lets you easily compare the complete information from Equifax, Experian, TransUnion and Crediva all on one easy-to-use format, so you can quickly spot any discrepancies.
Our professionally qualified, UK based team of Credit Analysts will be on hand to help if you need any guidance with correcting the Electoral Roll entries or any other aspect of your Credit Report. Updating the Electoral Register with your new address is a reasonably straightforward process; you can contact your local council by phone or online by heading to the Government website and following the on-screen instructions.
Once you have successfully amended your Electoral Roll details, it can take up to three months depending on whether the Annual Canvass is under way for your local council to pass the updated information to the Credit Reference Agencies, and then a further month for it to appear on your Credit Report.
Once a Credit Reference Agency receives the new information from your council, you should find that your information is updated automatically. If you want to fast-track this process, you can request an official letter of confirmation from your local council, detailing the exact name and address formats to which your listing is registered and the date your listing commenced. The provision of such a letter is standard procedure for most councils in the UK and should be free of charge.
With this letter in hand, you can approach each Credit Reference Agency individually to request they each amend your status. On the first working day of each month except in October, November and December , we publish a list of alterations to the electoral register.
In the weeks prior to an election, we may publish some additional lists of alterations. Use the register to vote service to:. Publication of electoral registers is at the discretion of the individual local authorities and they may be published any time between December 1st, , and February 1st, Please note that Equifax is unable to make changes to the electoral roll information until they receive the update from the local authority. Yahoo Web Search Yahoo Settings.
Sign In. Search query. Ask your electoral registration officer or area electoral office for further information. The full and open electoral registers are updated monthly. If you move house, you can re-register with your new address at any time of year, and your new details will be included in the next monthly update of the full register. From 1 December , registration in Northern Ireland became continuous.
This means that annual forms are not sent out to households. If you live in Northern Ireland and want to update your details or to notify that you do not want your details to be more widely available, it is up to you to submit the registration form, available from the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland, to your area electoral office.
Prior to November the register could be sold to anyone prepared to pay a fee. A ruling by the High Court changed the law governing the use of personal information on the electoral register. The court confirmed that it was unlawful to sell copies of the electoral register to private businesses without giving people a choice not to have their information used in this way.
Depending on the circumstances, the use by an organisation of an older version of the register may raise issues in relation to the processing of personal data, giving rise to a risk of a breach of the provisions of the Data Protection Act Such processing might be unfair and might not accord with the expectations of individuals. If you have concerns about an instance where an organisation is using your details from an older version of the register, please tell us about it.
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