asked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that some thousands of miners and other workers transferred from depressed industrial districts to employment, or absent in search of employment elsewhere, have been struck off the new voters' lists for their habitual homes and have thereby been disfranchised, as they have not been placed upon the new voters' lists anywhere else owing to being compelled to shift from lodging to lodging whilst in or seeking intermittent employment during the three months' qualifying period up to 1st December, 1923; and will he take the necessary steps to empower the registration officers to retain the names of all such persons as absent voters upon the incoming registers at the polling districts within which their habitual homes are situated so that they may preserve their right to exercise the Franchise at the forthcoming General Election?