Captain TERRELLasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that His Majesty's Stationery Office is urging registration officers throughout the country to reduce the width of the pages of the electoral registers from 6½ inches in width to 6 inches only, thus eliminating an already too narrow margin, and causing general inconvenience; whether he has ascertained that the proposed change would cost a considerable amount to carry out and would effect no economy; and whether he will give instructions for the proposal to be withdrawn?
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§ Mr. SHORTTI understand that in the majority of constituencies the registers have for the last two years been printed on paper of the reduced width referred to. No inconvenience has, so far as I am aware, been experienced in those cases; and as the adoption of the reduced width in the remaining cases is estimated to effect a net saving of £6,000 a year, I should clearly not be justified in objecting to the change.