Colonel GRIFFITHSasked the Home Secretary if he can state why keepers of common lodging-houses, superintendents of shelters, and similar institutions are hot compelled to register the names of men who occupy rooms, as are proprietors of hotels and apartment-houses; whether this differentiation has enabled numbers of men of military age belonging to the casual labour class to escape military service; and whether he will consider if raids on these places would be likely to be more productive than raids at railway stations and music-halls?
§ Mr. BRACEThe only requirements as to registering visitors which apply to proprietors of hotels and apartment-houses are those imposed by the Aliens Restriction Order. Under that Order the proprietor has to ascertain the name, address, and nationality of all persons staying in the house, but the registration applies only to those persons who are aliens. These requirements apply and are enforced in the case of keepers of common lodging-houses and similar institutions just as much as in the case of proprietors of hotels and apartment-houses. The second part of the hon. Member's question does not therefore appear to arise, and the third part is for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War.