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
No, Sir. I think what happened under the old system was that certain people whose names ought to have been removed because they had left the district, or for other reasons, were in fact continued on the list and that led to a very considerable inflation of the registers.