Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Electoral Register – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 December 1949.
Sir Edward Keeling
, Twickenham
12:00,
8 December 1949
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a further statement as to how the total number of electors, excluding Service voters, on the new registers compares with the number on the last registers prepared before the re-introduction of the house-to-house canvass.
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.
