Oral Answers to Questions — Naval and Military Pensions and Grants. – in the House of Commons at on 14 February 1924.
Lieut.-Colonel VAUGHANMORGAN:
30.asked the Under-Secretary of State for the home Department whether he will consider the amending of the electoral law to enable the inmates of homes for disabled soldiers and sailors, such as the War Seal Mansions, Fulham, to exercise their vote on the principle of absent voters?
Mr. DAVIES:
In pursuance of provisions made by Order in Council, any man discharged from His Majesty's Forces who is in a hospital or institution, or is otherwise away from home for the purpose of training or treatment, can make application to the Registration Officer for his name to be placed on the absent voters' list, so that he may vote by post at a Parliamentary election. Forms for making such applications can be obtained from the Registration Officer.
Mr William Pringle
, Penistone
Is the hon. Gentleman aware that his reply does not cover the people who are contemplated in this question—people who are actually resident there, but are so afflicted that they could not possibly vote?
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
