Former MP for Rochester Chatham
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41. asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider amending the Representation of the People Act, 1918, so that the wives of serving officers and men of His Majesty's forces could be included in the absent voters' lists, so that they will not be debarred from exercising their franchise should they be living with their husbands who are serving at some place away from their home?
May I ask how the capital value of those works compares with the figure of previous years?
In the first place as representing the senior dockyard I should like to thank the First Lord for presenting the Estimates in the most satisfactory form they have been presented for many years. I am glad to see that the shortage of personnel is being dealt with by an addition of 2,000 men, and glad, also, from another point of view, that we are pressing on with the Singapore base. We must not...
Former MP for Rochester Chatham
Entered the House of Commons on 14 December 1918 — General election
Left the House of Commons on 25 October 1935 — General election
Also represented Cleveland
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