§ MR. CORRIE GRANT (Warwickshire, Rugby)To ask the Secretary of State 233 for the Home Department whether he is aware that Mr. Pratt, of Balderton, applied three times to the Newark County Petty Sessions for an exemption certificate from vaccination for his child and was refused, and that on the first two occasions his application was rejected because he had not a medical certificate that his child was unfit for vaccination; and whether, in view of the misapprehension among many magistrates as to their duties in this matter, he will propose amending legislation, substituting a statutory declaration of conscientious objection for the present application to the magistrates.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) I have been made aware of this case by a letter from Mr. Pratt. The question of amending the Vaccination Acts does not fall within my Department.