Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Electoral Register – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 December 1949.
Mr James Ede
, South Shields
12:00,
8 December 1949
I think the new system is better than the old. The registration officers, whose advice I take in regard to the arrangements, anticipated that the change from the old system to the new would probably result in a reduction of about 5 per cent., owing to the more faulty method of compiling the registers under the old system. As a matter of fact, the reduction is somewhere in the neighbourhood of 3 per cent.