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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 November 1964.

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Photo of Mr Dudley Smith Mr Dudley Smith , Brentford and Chiswick 12:00, 19 November 1964

I thank the Home Secretary for that reply. Is he aware that the present system is far from fool-proof, because it places a responsibility on the head of the household to fill in the registration form? Because a large number of places are now in multi-occupation, the head of the household is often ill-defined and, as a result, the person filling in the form, sometimes through indifference or through misunderstanding, or even through malice, leaves people's names off.