HC Deb 31 May 1921 vol 142 c821
27. Mr. ORMSBY GORE

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in any revision of the Ceylon Constitution, he will give an undertaking that the advisability or inadvisability of extending the franchise to women on the same terms as men be left to the decision of the Ceylon Legislature in the same manner and subject to the same safeguards as this question has been left to the legislative councils of the eight major provinces of British India?

Mr. CHURCHILL

In such a matter I should certainly give the fullest consideration to the views of the Legislative Council. As, however, my hon. Friend will be aware, the analogy between the Ceylon Government and that of the provinces of British India is not sufficiently complete to justify the adoption of any policy in Ceylon on the ground that it has been adopted by provincial Governments in India.